{"id":38401,"date":"2025-07-02T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/fighting-surprise-medical-bills-know-your-rights-avoid-costly-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:15:12","slug":"fighting-surprise-medical-bills-know-your-rights-avoid-costly-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/fighting-surprise-medical-bills-know-your-rights-avoid-costly-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Surprise Medical Bills: Know Your Rights &#038; Avoid Costly Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5x-1JrDn5U?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Do you really know what you&#8217;re paying for when those medical bills arrive? 7 News Consumer Anchor Diane Lee exposes how patients can fall victim to surprise medical bills \u2014 and what you can do to fight back. <\/p>\n<p>From understanding your Explanation of Benefits (EOB) to using the No Surprises Act to protect yourself, this report breaks down your rights and how to avoid unfair charges. Plus, hear from a frustrated patient who finally got answers after months of confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really know what you&#8217;re paying for when those medical bills arrive? 7 News Consumer Anchor Diane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}