How to Negotiate Your Medical Bills and Debt With Your Hospital Medical bills can be hard to decipher butthere are severalreasons to pause before you settle up By Melanie Evans and Anna Wilde Mathews - Link to Article American households commonly struggle with medical...
Hospital Prices Are Arbitrary. Just Look at the Kingsburys’ $100,000 Bill. Newly public data reveal how some patients end up paying more at hospitals—and how little control consumers have overthe amounts, even with insurance By Melanie Evans and Tom McGinty - Link to...
Hospitals Often Charge Uninsured People the Highest Prices, New Data Show Cash payers are often charged more than insurance companies forthe same service by the same hospital, according to a WSJ analysis of previously confidential data By Melanie Evans, Anna Wilde...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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...
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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