{"id":873999,"date":"2026-08-28T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873999\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:52:10","slug":"she-thought-she-had-insurance-coverage-then-a-tumor-was-flagged-as-a-pre-existing-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873999\/","title":{"rendered":"She thought she had insurance coverage. Then a tumor was flagged as a pre-existing condition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-90cc9f\" class=\"body-graf\">This is part of The Cost of Denial, NBC News\u2019 reporting on insurance in America. If you are dealing with seemingly inappropriate bills or a denial of coverage, care or repairs for health, home or auto, email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-care\/mailto:Costofdenial@nbcuni.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Costofdenial@nbcuni.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-743732\" class=\"body-graf\">Lisa Brundridge was recovering well from her surgery to remove a tumor from her spine when she got a notice from her health insurance provider that made her feel sick to her stomach: Her plan had refused to cover the nearly half-million-dollar combined cost of the operation and medical tests leading up to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is part of The Cost of Denial, NBC News\u2019 reporting on insurance in America. If you are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-873999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}