{"id":12964,"date":"2019-04-03T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2019-04-03T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:27:12","slug":"fixing-surprise-medical-bill-problem-shouldnt-fall-to-consumers-panel-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12964","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Surprise Medical Bill Problem Shouldn\u2019t Fall To Consumers, Panel Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>One point drew clear agreement Tuesday during a House subcommittee hearing: When it comes to the problem of surprise medical bills, the solution must protect patients \u2014 not demand that they be great negotiators.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fixing-surprise-medical-bill-problem-shouldnt-fall-to-consumers-panel-told\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=71403460&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--aW2JVXCVhQ7Il0p7UZ9-NSz91ctR1jTXYGGAPtZ6e-jybAVNPcXpHCBoTIRsgP9Pzems-VLgCcSLPB53LLiu8cagHGg&amp;_hsmi=71403460\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" 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 Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News) One point drew clear agreement Tuesday during a House subcommittee hearing: When it<\/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-12964","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\/12964","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=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12965,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}