{"id":2922,"date":"2024-07-08T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/better-access-for-a-few-patients-disrupts-care-for-many\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:27:17","slug":"better-access-for-a-few-patients-disrupts-care-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/better-access-for-a-few-patients-disrupts-care-for-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Better access for a few patients disrupts care for many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn&#8217;t going to see you anymore.&#8221; That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in 2019. She found out about the change when someone at the physician&#8217;s front desk pointed to a posted notice. At first, she stuck with the practice; in her area, she said, it is now tough to find a primary care doctor who doesn&#8217;t charge an annual membership fee from $350 to $500. But last year, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/better-access-for-a-few-patients-disrupts-care-for-many\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn&#8217;t going to see you anymore.&#8221; That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in 2019. She found out about the change when someone at the physician&#8217;s front desk pointed to a posted notice. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}