{"id":14240,"date":"2019-10-10T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:21:05","slug":"chs-to-erase-up-to-50m-in-medical-debt-for-former-hospital-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14240","title":{"rendered":"CHS to erase up to $50M in medical debt for former hospital patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>As part of a legal settlement, Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has agreed to forgive up to $50 million in medical debt for former patients at Deaconess and Valley hospitals in Washington state, according to The Spokesman-Review.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/chs-to-erase-up-to-50m-in-medical-debt-for-former-hospital-patients.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8964\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) As part of a legal settlement, Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has agreed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240","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=14240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14241,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14240\/revisions\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}