{"id":7973,"date":"2017-08-26T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2017-08-25T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:31:32","slug":"hospital-apologizes-for-mistakenly-billing-patient-for-er-waiting-room-visit-with-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7973","title":{"rendered":"Hospital apologizes for mistakenly billing patient for ER waiting room visit with flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A woman who went to the emergency room at Hamilton, Ohio-based Bethesda Butler Hospital but only sat in the waiting room received a$1,059 medical bill, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/money\/consumer\/dont-waste-your-money\/woman-billed-1000-for-er-waiting-room-visit\">WCPO<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/hospital-apologizes-for-mistakenly-billing-patient-for-er-waiting-room-visit-with-flowers.html\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A woman who went to the emergency room at Hamilton, Ohio-based Bethesda Butler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}