{"id":302,"date":"2026-11-03T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:13:01","slug":"flouting-consumer-law-insurers-refuse-to-pay-medical-bills-for-emergency-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Flouting Consumer Law, Insurers Refuse to Pay Medical Bills for Emergency Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A law designed to eliminate surprise medical bills has resulted in millions of high-dollar payouts going to doctors \u2014 and now health insurers are pushing back. Plans are increasingly withholding payments for emergency care, flouting consumer protection law in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute highlights growing tension between insurers and medical providers over who ultimately bears the financial burden of emergency treatment costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/03\/us\/insuers-nonpayment-arbitration.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times \u2014 Flouting Consumer Law, Insurers Refuse to Pay Medical Bills for Emergency Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A law designed to eliminate surprise medical bills has resulted in millions of high-dollar payouts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[154,152,151,155,153],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-science","tag-consumer-law","tag-emergency-care","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-policy","tag-medical-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}