{"id":20619,"date":"2022-12-08T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:14:52","slug":"cancer-patients-endure-an-overlooked-financial-burden-hospital-parking-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20619","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients endure an overlooked financial burden: hospital parking fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bob Herman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many patients, one of the most antagonizing parts of a hospital visit is paying for parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those parking fees aren\u2019t just an annoyance for the sick and injured, according to a new paper in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. The charges are actually eating into their financial well-being, particularly for people who have cancer and have to make frequent visits to the hospital for treatments like radiation and chemotherapy.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/12\/07\/hospital-parking-fees\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/12\/07\/hospital-parking-fees\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bob Herman for STAT) For many patients, one of the most antagonizing parts of a hospital visit is paying<\/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":[319,321,320],"class_list":["post-20619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","tag-cancer-patients","tag-financial-burden","tag-hospital-parking-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","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=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20620,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}