{"id":23162,"date":"2024-08-05T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2024-08-05T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:59:19","slug":"few-know-they-can-challenge-their-insurer-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23162","title":{"rendered":"Few know they can challenge their insurer: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fewer than half of people who receive an unexpected bill from their insurer will challenge the charges, a survey from the Commonwealth Fund found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey, published August 1, asked 4,803 adults if they had received an unexpected medical bill in the past year.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/few-know-they-can-challenge-their-insurer-survey.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/few-know-they-can-challenge-their-insurer-survey.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"wp-image-8565\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg 2127w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26212915survey-questionnaire-poll-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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 Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Fewer than half of people who receive an unexpected bill from their insurer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,56],"tags":[503,385,238,306,1465],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-medical-debt","tag-health-insurance-companies","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medical-bills","tag-unexpected-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","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=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23163,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}