{"id":12176,"date":"2018-12-11T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2018-12-11T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:02:00","slug":"insurers-businesses-and-consumer-advocates-unite-against-surprise-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12176","title":{"rendered":"Insurers, businesses and consumer advocates unite against surprise medical bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>Nine organizations representing consumers, businesses and health insurance providers revealed they are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahip.org\/health-care-leaders-unite-to-protect-patients-against-surprise-medical-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banding together<\/a>\u00a0to protect patients from surprise, unexpected medical bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/5-things-to-know-about-surprise-medical-bills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surprise medical bills<\/a>\u00a0may occur when a patient receives care at an out-of-network hospital or from an out-of-network provider at an in-network facility. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/insurers-businesses-and-consumer-advocates-unite-against-surprise-medical-bills.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8462\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Nine organizations representing consumers, businesses and health insurance providers revealed they are\u00a0banding together\u00a0to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}