{"id":4349,"date":"2025-03-12T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:27:00","slug":"a-2100-markup-my-battle-with-a-vastly-overpriced-knee-brace-and-u-s-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"A 2,100% Markup: My Battle with a Vastly Overpriced Knee Brace \u2014 and U.S. Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/03\/a-2100-markup-my-battle-with-a-vastly-overpriced-knee-brace-and-u-s-healthcare\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I asked if I could purchase the brace myself and bring it to the surgery. The answer was an unequivocal no: the health insurer\u2019s contracted rate required me to purchase the brace from the hospital as part of the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/03\/a-2100-markup-my-battle-with-a-vastly-overpriced-knee-brace-and-u-s-healthcare\/\">A 2,100% Markup: My Battle with a Vastly Overpriced Knee Brace \u2014 and U.S. Healthcare<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked if I could purchase the brace myself and bring it to the surgery. The answer was an unequivocal no: the health insurer\u2019s contracted rate required me to purchase the brace from the hospital as part of the procedure. The post A 2,100% Markup: My Battle with a Vastly Overpriced Knee Brace \u2014 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}