Audio: Getting To The Bottom Of Hospital Pricing

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released data Wednesday on variations in hospital pricing and how much Medicare has actually paid to individual hospitals for various procedures. Jordan Rau joined NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” Wednesday afternoon to discuss what the data tell us about the the cost of health care and whether higher prices are correlated with better quality.

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<h1>Audio: Getting To The Bottom Of Hospital Pricing</h1>
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		<time class="posted-on" datetime="2013-05-09T13:12:52-04:00">
			May 9, 2013		</time>
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<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=182295999&m=182295992&t=audio">http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=182295999&m=182295992&t=audio</a></p><p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services <a href="http://capsules.kffhealthnews.org/index.php/2013/05/medicare-data-show-wide-variation-in-hospital-pricing/">released data Wednesday</a> on variations in hospital pricing and how much Medicare has actually paid to individual hospitals for various procedures. Jordan Rau joined NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” Wednesday afternoon to discuss what the data tell us about the the cost of health care and whether higher prices are correlated with better quality.</p><p>Press play above to listen in to the conversation.</p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Audio%3A%20Getting%20To%20The%20Bottom%20Of%20Hospital%20Pricing&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2Fnews%2Faudio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing%2F&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/audio-getting-to-the-bottom-of-hospital-pricing/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=5622&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p>

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