A longtime medical industry and insurance expert and caregiver in Northeast Florida has launched one of the nation’s only medical billing advocacy services. ClaimMedic helps patients and caregivers verify and manage their medical bills, which are often confusing as...
Understanding your Medical Bills
Insurance companies have established networks in most major cities. These networks consist of physicians, hospitals and ancillary providers who sign a contract to accept the “reasonable” amount as payment in full for a given service. Every insurance company has its...
5 Tricks Hospitals Use to Overcharge (and What You Can Do About It)
As many as 90% of hospital bills contain errors. Furthermore – these errors are much more likely to be in favor of the hospital than the patient – a Nerdwallet Study found that Medicare claims with errors resulted in overpayment for those services by ~26.4%...
How Unpaid Medical Bills Affect Your Credit
While your medical history is certainly not a part of your credit report, unpaid medical debts that go to collections can go onto your report and affect your credit score. Collections marks on your credit report can take up to 50 points off your credit score and last...
4 Most Common Medical Billing Errors
Balance Billing When a claim is processed by your insurance company, it’s usually paid as either in- or out-of-network, depending whether the provider has a contract with your insurer. If the provider is in-network, a payment is made based on an amount agreed upon in...
5 Steps to Reduce Medical Debt
Have you or a family member recently had a medical emergency, needed surgery or been hospitalized? If so, you may know the feeling of confusion, stress and frustration that occurs when the bills start arriving in your mailbox. What do you do? How much do you owe? How...
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