{"id":181370,"date":"2022-06-29T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=181370"},"modified":"2022-06-29T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:53:44","slug":"cnss-says-hospitals-cannot-demand-pre-payment-for-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/cnss-says-hospitals-cannot-demand-pre-payment-for-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"CNSS says hospitals cannot demand pre-payment for emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CNSS-logo-e1656503604930.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181406\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Council for Social Security ruled that it is illegal that hospitals require that patients who are affiliated to health plans leave a deposit before receiving emergency services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Social Security Council (CNSS) issued a press release mandating that healthcare service providers desist from the practice of demanding deposits or advances from family insurance affiliates as a guarantee of payment to provide emergency medical assistance. This practice is prohibited, says the CNSS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnss.gob.do\/index.php\/noticias\/item\/972-cnss-reitera-esta-prohibido-cobrar-anticipo-o-deposito-en-asistencia-medica-de-emergencia\">CNSS <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/pais\/el-cnss-reitera-que-es-ilegal-cobrar-en-las-emergencias\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 June 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council for Social Security ruled that it is illegal that hospitals require that patients who are affiliated to health plans leave a deposit before receiving emergency services. The National Social Security Council (CNSS) issued a press release mandating that healthcare service providers desist from the practice of demanding deposits or advances from family &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/06\/29\/cnss-says-hospitals-cannot-demand-pre-payment-for-emergencies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181407,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181370\/revisions\/181407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}