{"id":17692,"date":"2021-02-18T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:31:59","slug":"an-average-out-of-pocket-cost-over-1000-for-serious-cases-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17692","title":{"rendered":"An average out-of-pocket cost over $1,000 for serious cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests an average-out-of-pocket cost of over $1000 for serious cases of COVID-19 as insurers end grace period for COVID-19 hospitals costs. Insurance companies and government programs absorbed the usual costs patients would owe for such care. Read the attached article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2021-02\/mm-u-aie021721.php\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7810\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests an average-out-of-pocket cost of over $1000 for serious cases of COVID-19 as insurers end grace period<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692","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=17692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17693,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17692\/revisions\/17693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}