{"id":30208,"date":"2021-04-29T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30208"},"modified":"2021-04-29T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:44:21","slug":"financial-assistance-approved-for-assault-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30208","title":{"rendered":"Financial assistance approved for assault patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals who have experienced domestic or sexual violence can avoid a lengthy and expensive reimbursement process under a bill passed by the Legislature April 29.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28750\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=28750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Wendy DeBoer. District 10. December 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1607440189&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2020, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;140&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenDeBoer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Wendy DeBoer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Wendy DeBoer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28750\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Wendy DeBoer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenDeBoer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Wendy DeBoer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB497, sponsored by Bennington Sen. Wendy DeBoer, a health care provider can apply to the Nebraska Crime Victim\u2019s Reparations Program for reimbursement of costs associated with treating or examining an individual\u2019s injuries directly related to sexual assault or domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The reimbursement covers the portion of costs that are not covered by insurance or other sources and typically paid by the patient. Currently, a person receiving such services is billed and required to pay for the services before then applying for reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p>The bill requires that a health care provider obtain a patient\u2019s consent before applying for reimbursement. It also adds child abuse as an offense eligible for reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 47-0 to approve LB497.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals who have experienced domestic or sexual violence can avoid a lengthy and expensive reimbursement process under a bill passed by the Legislature April 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-30208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-wendy-deboer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30209,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions\/30209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}