{"id":245,"date":"2006-12-15T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T21:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-12-15T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T23:47:57","slug":"additional-hospital-bills-make-contractor-sick-wralcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/12\/15\/additional-hospital-bills-make-contractor-sick-wralcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional Hospital Bills Make Contractor Sick :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/5onyourside\/story\/1105395\/\">Additional Hospital Bills Make Contractor Sick :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spokeswoman Stephanie Crayton said Bridges was originally billed too little because the hospital coded the case wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The confusion started because Bridges was a third party paying someone else&#8217;s bill. Most of the time, Crayton said, a third party is an insurance company, and Bridges was originally billed the price insurance companies pay for treatment, which is much less than what people who don&#8217;t have or don&#8217;t use insurance pay.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve heard a hospital representative make this claim publicly.  The question is why?  Why do people without insurance have to pay more than the negotiated insurance rates?  This is what make programs like <a href=\"http:\/\/maternitycard.com\">Maternity Card<\/a> so appealing.  You get the benefit of participating in a plan with pre-negotiated  rates even though you will pay the bill out of pocket.  This is a practice by health care institutions that must be stopped but won&#8217;t.  There&#8217;s too much corporate health care influence in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Hospital Bills Make Contractor Sick :: WRAL.com Spokeswoman Stephanie Crayton said Bridges was originally billed too little because the hospital coded the case wrong. &#8220;The confusion started because Bridges was a third party paying someone else&#8217;s bill. Most of the time, Crayton said, a third party is an insurance company, and Bridges was originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/12\/15\/additional-hospital-bills-make-contractor-sick-wralcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Additional Hospital Bills Make Contractor Sick :: WRAL.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}