{"id":169,"date":"2010-10-24T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthnews.nchealthplans.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2011-10-29T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T13:02:52","slug":"what-is-coinsurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2010\/10\/what-is-coinsurance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Coinsurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Question_5023827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3275\" title=\"question\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Question_5023827-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \><\/a>Many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a> applicants ask the question&#8230;. What is coinsurance?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a> defines coinsurance as &#8220;the percentage of the allowed amounts for covered services that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a>\u00a0will pay after you meet your deductible.&#8221;\u00a0 In other words, it is the percent that the insurance company is responsible for paying towards your medical bills.\u00a0 When does coinsurance come into play?\u00a0 When you have to go into the hospital, have diagnostic testing such as MRIs, CAT Scans, or x-rays, or if you have surgery in a free standing surgery center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\">www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our qualified agents.\u00a0 Our agency provides coverage for health insurance in North Carolina through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina\u00a0(BCBSNC).\u00a0 <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health.\u00a0 Call us for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many BCBSNC applicants ask the question&#8230;. What is coinsurance?\u00a0 BCBSNC defines coinsurance as &#8220;the percentage of the allowed amounts for covered services that BCBSNC\u00a0will pay after you meet your deductible.&#8221;\u00a0 In other words, it is the percent that the insurance company is responsible for paying towards your medical bills.\u00a0 When does coinsurance come into play?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[23,136,41,42],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance-terms","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-north-carolina","tag-coinsurance","tag-deductible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}