{"id":18920,"date":"2021-10-06T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18920"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:02:52","slug":"major-insurers-running-billions-of-dollars-behind-on-payments-to-hospitals-and-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18920","title":{"rendered":"Major Insurers Running Billions of Dollars Behind on Payments to Hospitals and Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Anthem Blue Cross, the country\u2019s second-biggest health insurance company, is behind on billions of dollars in payments owed to hospitals and doctors because of onerous new reimbursement rules, computer problems and mishandled claims, say hospital officials in multiple states.<\/p>\n<p>Anthem, like other big insurers, is using the covid-19 crisis as cover to institute \u201cegregious\u201d policies that harm patients and pinch hospital finances, said Molly Smith, group vice president at the American Hospital Association. \u201cThere\u2019s this sense of \u2018Everyone\u2019s distracted. We can get this through,\u2019\u201d she said.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/anthem-united-major-insurers-behind-on-payments-billions-owed-hospitals-doctors-covid\/\">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><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>(By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News) Anthem Blue Cross, the country\u2019s second-biggest health insurance company, is behind on billions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920","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=18920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18921,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18920\/revisions\/18921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}