{"id":952,"date":"2015-10-16T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=952"},"modified":"2015-10-16T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:36:06","slug":"n-y-attorney-general-reaches-agreement-with-urgent-care-clinics-in-first-surprise-medical-bill-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Attorney General Reaches Agreement With Urgent Care Clinics In First \u2018Surprise Medical Bill\u2019 Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Julie Appleby, Kaiser health News)<\/p>\n<p>Four companies running urgent care centers in New York have agreed to disclose more fully which insurance plans they accept, following an inquiry by the state\u2019s attorney general that found unclear or incomplete information on their websites that could result in larger-than-expected bills for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements mark the first enforcement action brought under New York\u2019s new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfs.ny.gov\/consumer\/hprotection.htm\">\u201csurprise medical bill\u201d law<\/a>,\u00a0seen as one of the broadest in the nation. The law aims to reduce the number of consumers who get such bills when they unknowingly see providers who are not part of their insurance plan networks. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/n-y-attorney-general-reaches-agreement-with-urgent-care-clinics-in-first-surprise-medical-bill-action\/?utm_campaign=KFF%3A+The+Latest&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=22921510&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2iIb28ZDPKPAi1xGu7-PYOkdNuOGVm0IloDkmHj3fYO1A6nl_ujFSt6tJgrI0h9gh0j0pUr4-9ov-iEIRoft8KZz_PA&amp;_hsmi=22921510\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/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; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s \r\nvalidity. 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 &#8211; Julie Appleby, Kaiser health News) Four companies running urgent care centers in New York have agreed to disclose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","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\/952","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}