{"id":17619,"date":"2021-02-04T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2021-02-04T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:23:19","slug":"40-of-commercially-insured-patients-incur-half-of-yearly-out-of-pocket-spending-in-1-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17619","title":{"rendered":"40% of commercially insured patients incur half of yearly out-of-pocket spending in 1 visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0<span class=\"author\">Katie Adams<\/span>\u00a0for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 percent of all commercially insured patients acquire half of their annual out-of-pocket medical spending in a single encounter, according to a study published Feb. 1 in Health Affairs.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/40-of-commercially-insured-patients-incur-half-of-yearly-out-of-pocket-spending-in-1-visit.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14819\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\u00a0Katie Adams\u00a0for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Nearly 40 percent of all commercially insured patients acquire half of their annual out-of-pocket medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619","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=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17620,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions\/17620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}