{"id":19413,"date":"2022-01-26T07:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19413"},"modified":"2022-01-26T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:41:09","slug":"what-the-federal-no-surprises-act-means-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19413","title":{"rendered":"What the Federal \u2018No Surprises Act\u2019 Means in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Betty Chow, a Los Angeles resident, had a cervical disc replaced in August 2020 at a surgery center that was part of her Anthem Blue Cross PPO network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirteen months later, she was blindsided by a bill for nearly $2,000 from the anesthesiologist who was on her surgical team but was not contracted with her PPO, or preferred provider organization. Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/surprise-medical-bills-federal-no-surprises-act-california-law\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/surprise-medical-bills-federal-no-surprises-act-california-law\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, 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-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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 Bernard J. Wolfson for Kaiser Health News) Betty Chow, a Los Angeles resident, had a cervical disc replaced in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413","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=19413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19414,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19413\/revisions\/19414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}