{"id":19084,"date":"2021-11-08T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19084"},"modified":"2021-11-08T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:30:19","slug":"35-of-patients-report-deferring-care-over-existing-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19084","title":{"rendered":"35% of patients report deferring care over existing medical debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alia Paavola for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five percent of patients with outstanding medical bills reported deferring care in the last year over the unpaid debt, according to a consumer survey conducted by TransUnion Healthcare.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/35-of-patients-report-deferring-care-over-existing-medical-debt.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11925\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/senior-couple-with-drugs.jpg 700w\" 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 Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Thirty-five percent of patients with outstanding medical bills reported deferring care in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084","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=19084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19085,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084\/revisions\/19085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}