{"id":22284,"date":"2024-01-04T07:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22284"},"modified":"2024-01-04T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:47:51","slug":"woman-petitions-health-insurer-after-company-approves-then-rejects-her-infusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22284","title":{"rendered":"Woman Petitions Health Insurer After Company Approves \u2014 Then Rejects \u2014 Her Infusions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Lauren Sausser for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When KFF Health News published an article in August about the \u201cprior authorization hell\u201d Sally Nix said she went through to secure approval from her insurance company for the expensive monthly infusions she needs, we thought her story had a happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s because, after KFF Health News sent questions to Nix\u2019s insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, it retroactively approved $36,000 worth of treatments she thought she owed. Even better, she also learned she would qualify for the infusions moving forward.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/health-insurance-prior-authorization-coverage-infusions\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/health-insurance-prior-authorization-coverage-infusions\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">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=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/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 Lauren Sausser for KFF Health News) When KFF Health News published an article in August about the \u201cprior authorization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,200,846],"tags":[166,385,479,442],"class_list":["post-22284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-prior-authorization","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-reform","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284","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=22284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22285,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22284\/revisions\/22285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}