{"id":13142,"date":"2026-05-07T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:45:00","slug":"patient-responsibility-is-rising-the-payment-experience-needs-to-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13142","title":{"rendered":"Patient Responsibility Is Rising \u2014 The Payment Experience Needs to Keep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/05\/patient-responsibility-is-rising-the-payment-experience-needs-to-keep-up\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Payment friction isn\u2019t always obvious. It shows up in extended accounts receivable timelines, increased billing inquiries, and patients who delay payment \u2013 not because they\u2019re unwilling to pay, but because the process made it harder than it needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/05\/patient-responsibility-is-rising-the-payment-experience-needs-to-keep-up\/\">Patient Responsibility Is Rising \u2014 The Payment Experience Needs to Keep Up<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payment friction isn\u2019t always obvious. It shows up in extended accounts receivable timelines, increased billing inquiries, and patients who delay payment \u2013 not because they\u2019re unwilling to pay, but because the process made it harder than it needed to be. The post Patient Responsibility Is Rising \u2014 The Payment Experience Needs to Keep Up appeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","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\/13142"}],"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=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}