{"id":15794,"date":"2020-04-20T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15794"},"modified":"2020-04-20T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:26:53","slug":"in-fine-print-hhs-appears-to-ban-all-surprise-billing-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15794","title":{"rendered":"In Fine Print, HHS Appears To Ban All Surprise Billing During The Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emmarie Huetteman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors\u2019 practices have included this stipulation: They cannot foist surprise medical bills on COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>But buried in the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 terms and conditions for eligibility is language that could carry much broader implications. It says \u201cHHS broadly views every patient as a possible case of COVID-19,\u201d the guidance states.\u00a0 Continue reading article<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/in-fine-print-hhs-appears-to-ban-all-surprise-billing-during-the-pandemic\/\"> 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 Emmarie Huetteman for Kaiser Health News) Federal officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors\u2019 practices have included<\/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-15794","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\/15794","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=15794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}