{"id":24819,"date":"2025-08-26T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24819"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:57:36","slug":"when-hospitals-and-insurers-fight-patients-get-caught-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24819","title":{"rendered":"When hospitals and insurers fight, patients get caught in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bram Sable-Smith for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing between her insurer and her local hospital system, to make sure her plan would cover her husband&#8217;s post-surgery care.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/08\/26\/nx-s1-5515408\/health-insurance-network-contract-price-legal-patients\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/08\/26\/nx-s1-5515408\/health-insurance-network-contract-price-legal-patients\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" 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 Bram Sable-Smith for NPR) Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,846],"tags":[385,238,442],"class_list":["post-24819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-prior-authorization","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-prior-authorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819","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=24819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24820,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24819\/revisions\/24820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}