{"id":99229,"date":"2025-08-21T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99229\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:41:10","slug":"confused-by-the-health-care-system-npr-and-kff-health-news-want-to-help-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99229\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused by the health care system? NPR and KFF Health News want to help : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755776470_557_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3840x2560+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6d%2F5f%2F3c35d87a4a78831bd41bf8f8f24e%2Fhhh-logo.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"HHH_Logo.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Oona Zenda\/KFF Health News<\/p>\n<p>The health care system in the U.S. can be extremely confusing. If you&#8217;ve puzzled over using your insurance or dealing with hospitals and doctors, we may be able to help. <\/p>\n<p>Pre-authorization delay? No in-network specialists? Dispute over costs? Confusion after a hospital discharge? Health Care Helpline \u2014 from NPR and KFF Health News \u2014 helps you better understand and overcome the hurdles between you and good care.<\/p>\n<p>Send us your tricky question about navigating the system and we may tap a policy sleuth to dig in and help find answers.  <\/p>\n<p>Click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/health-care-helpline-share-your-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">share your story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oona Zenda\/KFF Health News The health care system in the U.S. can be extremely confusing. If you&#8217;ve puzzled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-99229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}