{"id":12172,"date":"2018-12-11T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2018-12-11T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:43:16","slug":"one-implant-two-prices-it-depends-on-whos-paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12172","title":{"rendered":"One Implant, Two Prices. It Depends On Who\u2019s Paying."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Victoria Knight for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Kim Daniels didn\u2019t have to pay a penny for her double mastectomy or the reconstructive surgery she had after treatment for breast cancer in June 2018. Her health insurance, PennCare, administered through Independence Blue Cross in Pennsylvania, fully covered both procedures. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/one-implant-two-prices-it-depends-on-whos-paying\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68219951&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--vkJt_aH_ZtzncHrQqBUUNoWj4lAvuUltyIqvdAyHFm-IvwBLjwd9-Sz_6LDc4f8cE5wooZlJH7QxIEW_-cqa7fxJk9Q&amp;_hsmi=68219951\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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