{"id":7286,"date":"2017-07-02T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2017-07-01T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:10:59","slug":"california-joins-states-that-protect-patients-against-nasty-surprise-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7286","title":{"rendered":"California Joins States That Protect Patients Against Nasty Surprise Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Bazar for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Before Kevin Powers underwent lung cancer surgery last October, his girlfriend, Agi Orsi, meticulously checked and double-checked to be sure his Santa Monica, Calif., hospital and surgeon were in his health plan\u2019s network. They were.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/california-joins-states-that-protect-patients-against-nasty-surprise-bills\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=53766389&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8WPPoDVkpKjpZvhNBiz9es1j1FJShgLMZqLvVr_yLMYodRajr\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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