{"id":20677,"date":"2022-12-22T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:10:43","slug":"an-arm-and-a-leg-getting-insurance-to-pay-for-oral-surgery-is-like-pulling-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20677","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An Arm and a Leg\u2019: Getting Insurance to Pay for Oral Surgery Is Like Pulling Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Dan Weissmann for Kaiser Health News on December 22, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health coverage generally does not cover dental work. But Susan Rice of Atlanta should have been the exception: She was hit by a speeding car, causing extensive damage to her own \u201cgrill.\u201d She\u2019s been fighting to get her oral surgery covered for 18 months and counting.  <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/an-arm-and-a-leg-getting-insurance-to-pay-for-oral-surgery-is-like-pulling-teeth\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" 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: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/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 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dan Weissmann for Kaiser Health News on December 22, 2022 Health coverage generally does not cover dental work. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,12,200],"tags":[97,360,361],"class_list":["post-20677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-dentaloral-health","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","tag-aca","tag-dental-health","tag-oral-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20678,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}