{"id":48,"date":"2020-01-13T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:49:55","slug":"denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/2020\/01\/13\/denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Denied!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, that was a stressful way to start this adventure! This afternoon Alex got a \u201cdenial of service\u201d notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield. They somehow decided that fusing bones and lengthening tendons was <em>outpatient<\/em> surgery! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex got right in the phone. Our mail arrives around 2:30pm and by 3:30 we had made a dozen calls and had reached one or two human beings. At about 5pm we finally heard from the very helpful Mallory at Gillette Children\u2019s financial office who assured us that Gillette would straighten out the snafu or cover the costs itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what we needed to hear. Full steam ahead for tomorrow\u2019s surgery, though not without a reminder that the American healthcare system is a mess. Luckily, it seems our hospital is doing what it can to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was a stressful way to start this adventure! This afternoon Alex got a \u201cdenial of service\u201d notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield. They somehow decided that fusing bones and lengthening tendons was outpatient surgery! Alex got right in the phone. Our mail arrives around 2:30pm and by 3:30 we had made a dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.clst.org\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}