{"id":128613,"date":"2015-11-05T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/rolling-the-financial-dice-at-the-er.html"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:18:49","slug":"rolling-the-financial-dice-at-the-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/05\/rolling-the-financial-dice-at-the-er.html","title":{"rendered":"Rolling the financial dice at the ER"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have insurance coverage with a hospital — but that doesn't mean those ER docs will accept it, or have negotiated the same rates. So remember, next time you're being hauled to the ER because of a life-threatening injury or condition, do your research en route<\/i> and ask for a diversion to a different hospital if the rates aren't what you can afford.<\/p>\n

American Health Care is Number One!<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here's another reason we need to go to a single payer healthcare system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhy Emergency Rooms Are A Hotbed For Surprise Medical Bills<\/a><\/span>
\nWhen you head into the emergency room, you might assume that the doctors you see are hospital employees who accept the same insurance plans as their employer. But nearly two-thirds of hospitals now…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You may have insurance coverage with a hospital — but that doesn't mean those ER docs will accept it, or have negotiated the same rates. So remember, next time you're being hauled to the ER because of a life-threatening injury or condition, do your research en route and ask for a diversion to a different … Continue reading “Rolling the financial dice at the ER”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133110,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/think-of-the-children-literally-think-of-the-children-health-care-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":128613,"position":0},"title":"Think of the Children. 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