{"id":12410,"date":"2026-04-01T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12410"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:34:00","slug":"fixing-healthcare-means-trusting-doctors-and-patients-not-payers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=12410","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Healthcare Means Trusting Doctors and Patients \u2014 Not Payers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/fixing-healthcare-means-trusting-doctors-and-patients-not-payers\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legacy payers have had decades to readjust their approach. Costs continue to climb, patients still face denials, and physicians remain mired in bureaucracy. It\u2019s time to replace a system built on restrictions with one built on trust \u2014 trust in clinicians to practice medicine and in patients to make informed choices.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/04\/fixing-healthcare-means-trusting-doctors-and-patients-not-payers\/\">Fixing Healthcare Means Trusting Doctors and Patients \u2014 Not Payers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy payers have had decades to readjust their approach. Costs continue to climb, patients still face denials, and physicians remain mired in bureaucracy. It\u2019s time to replace a system built on restrictions with one built on trust \u2014 trust in clinicians to practice medicine and in patients to make informed choices. The post Fixing Healthcare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}