{"id":2700,"date":"2016-04-26T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:39:25","slug":"high-court-ruling-may-hinder-plans-efforts-to-recoup-consumers-legal-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"High Court Ruling May Hinder Plans\u2019 Efforts To Recoup Consumers\u2019 Legal Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Accidents happen, and if they\u2019re someone else\u2019s fault, you can go to court to try to get compensation for your medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering.\u00a0If you win, though, the pot of gold you receive may be considerably smaller than you expect:\u00a0Your health plan may claim some or all of it as reimbursement for money it spent on your medical care.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s completely legal and it happens all the time. But a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/15pdf\/14-723_1bn2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court decision<\/a>\u00a0gives consumers\u00a0ammunition to push back. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/high-court-ruling-may-hinder-plans-efforts-to-recoup-consumers-legal-awards\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28899709&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8oUq6W8HDLFRBNwYRt7nIcyZWzvRzGNvthKE7TsRykb0cCaFzMJ3vrp1pDSbae3sIpk1wGQ6RCeNAyglo7YQhKuORvJw&amp;_hsmi=28899709\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) Accidents happen, and if they\u2019re someone else\u2019s fault, you can go to court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}