{"id":9438,"date":"2018-01-31T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9438"},"modified":"2018-01-31T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:21:06","slug":"anthems-discretionary-ed-policy-lands-patient-with-12k-bill-8-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9438","title":{"rendered":"Anthem&#8217;s discretionary ED policy lands patient with $12k bill: 8 things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>A Kentucky resident received a $12,596 bill from Frankfort (K.Y.) Regional Medical Center after her insurer, Anthem, deemed her trip to the hospital&#8217;s emergency department nonemergent, according to\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/1\/29\/16906558\/anthem-emergency-room-coverage-denials-inappropriate\">Vox<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/anthem-s-discretionary-ed-policy-lands-patient-with-12k-bill-8-things-to-know.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>Notice: 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A Kentucky resident received a $12,596 bill from Frankfort (K.Y.) Regional Medical Center<\/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-9438","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\/9438","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=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9439,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions\/9439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}