{"id":2771,"date":"2024-05-15T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:10:05","slug":"digging-into-facility-fees-kff-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Digging Into Facility Fees &#8211; KFF Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\tBy <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/author\/dan-weissmann\/\"><strong>Dan Weissmann<\/strong><\/a>\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"posted-on\" datetime=\"2024-05-15T05:00:00-04:00\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tMay 15, 2024\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<label for=\"republish-content\" class=\"screen-reader-text\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tArticle HTML\t\t\t\t<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<textarea id=\"republish-content\" class=\"form-control\" rows=\"5\"><br \/>\n\t<span class=\"byline\">Dan Weissmann<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facility fees are charges tacked on for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/03\/26\/976112513\/her-doctors-office-moved-1-floor-up-why-did-her-treatment-cost-10-times-more\">visiting a doctor\u2019s office<\/a> or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/04\/08\/1168795014\/telemedicine-was-supposed-to-reduce-costs-heres-why-thats-not-always-the-case\">a telehealth visit<\/a>. They\u2019re becoming increasingly common and they can <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/bill-of-the-month-hospital-facility-fee-outpatient-arthritis-injections\/\">add hundreds of dollars<\/a> to your bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Arm and a Leg\u201d host Dan Weissmann wants to know how often this happens, where, and how much it costs patients. If you\u2019ve ever seen a charge for a facility fee on your medical bill \u2014 especially for a visit or service that didn\u2019t take place in a hospital \u2014 \u201cAn Arm and a Leg\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/armandalegshow.com\/fees\">wants to hear from you<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/armandalegshow.com\/fees\/\">Click here<\/a> to share your story. It may be featured on an upcoming episode.<\/p>\n<p>\tDan Weissmann<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danweissmann\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t@danweissmann\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tHost and producer of &#8220;An Arm and a Leg.&#8221; Previously, Dan was a staff reporter for Marketplace and Chicago&#8217;s WBEZ. His work also appears on All Things Considered, Marketplace, the BBC, 99 Percent Invisible, and Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting.\t\t<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tCredits\t<\/h3>\n<p>\tEmily Pisacreta<br \/>\n\tProducer<\/p>\n<p>\tAdam Raymonda<br \/>\n\tAudio wizard<\/p>\n<p>\tEllen Weiss<br \/>\n\tEditor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Arm and a Leg\u201d is a co-production of KFF Health News and Public Road Productions.<\/p>\n<p>To keep in touch with \u201cAn Arm and a Leg,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armandalegshow.com\/newsletter\/\">subscribe to the newsletter<\/a>. 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They\u2019re becoming increasingly common and they can add hundreds of dollars to your bill. \u201cAn Arm and a Leg\u201d host Dan Weissmann wants to know how often this happens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}