{"id":9567,"date":"2020-02-06T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=67be63cd94766192444a1159e09dbf6c"},"modified":"2020-02-06T05:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:00:08","slug":"a-possible-strategy-for-fending-off-surprise-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9567","title":{"rendered":"A Possible Strategy for Fending Off Surprise Medical Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/06\/well\/a-possible-strategy-for-fending-off-surprise-medical-bills.html?emc=rss&#038;partner=rss\">NYT &gt; Health<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The idea that modern medical billing has _anything_ to do with \"informed consent\" is a real stretch.  \r\nThe article proposal of scratching the \"pay whatever the hospital decides to charge\" parts of contracts and replacing with \"pay a maximum of 2x the federally negotiated Medicare rate\" before signing forms is an interesting strategy.<\/div><p>Writing in payment limits when signing hospital forms might provide some leverage over disputes that arise from surprise medical bills, some proponents suggest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in payment limits when signing hospital forms might provide some leverage over disputes tha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9567\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}