We’ve written about this in the past (7 Negotiating Tips to Help Lower Your Medical Bills) as well as dedicated an enormous part of our Ultimate Guide to it (Part 2: Negotiating Your Medical Bills) but this is a big enough topic that it bears revisiting. Below are the 5 steps we recommend taking in … How To Negotiate Your Medical Bills in 5 Steps
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We see this day in and day out – outrageous medical bills full of errors and inflated charges. And we fight these outrageous bills every single day – to the tune of millions of dollars of savings so far. We’ve given previous examples of crazy medical bills we’ve fought in our blog posts 5 Real Life … 5 Outrageous Medical Bills (That We Solved) – Part IV
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You’re visiting the US from another country and unfortunately end up in the hospital. Thankfully, you bought travelers health insurance so you should be protected from outrageous costs. However, you’re shocked when your travel insurance denies coverage and you receive a hospital bill for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. If this has happened … 4 Steps To Take If Healthcare Travel Insurance Denies Coverage
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We talk about this constantly, but it bears repeating: the standard rates that hospitals charge you have absolutely no bearing on reality. They average more than 4x their costs and in many hospitals are 10-20 times or more their costs. Imagine paying $150,000 for a brand new Honda Civic! Anytime you receive a hospital bill, … Top 5 Ways To Find Out How Much You SHOULD Pay For Your Medical Bills
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This is the second post in our series dealing with balance billing and surprise medical billing. In this post, we’ll dive into various regulations and protections against balance billing, what they mean, and how they affect you as the individual. Warning – this post assumes a basic level of background and familiarity with health insurance … Balance Billing – State and Federal Protections
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At Resolve we’ve seen hundreds of medical billing cases and successfully saved our patients enormous amounts of money by negotiating directly with the hospital to lower the amount that they charge. While it may seem odd at first, it’s very possible that the number on your bill may be fully negotiable. In fact, the initial … 7 Negotiating Tips to Help Lower Your Medical Bills
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The US spends over $3.5 trillion annually on healthcare – (note that’s roughly the same as the entire federal budget) – or over $10,000 for every man, woman, and child in the US. Everyone from pundits to political candidates to advocacy groups takes alternating potshots at insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies … Who Makes All The Money In Healthcare?
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7 Steps to Take If You Have a Medical Bill in Collections Perhaps you’re getting hounded by a debt collector for a medical bill that’s the size of a house mortgage. They’re sending letters and calling. Perhaps they’ve even filed a court judgement or lien against you in an effort to collect – and you’re … 7 Steps to Take If You Have a Medical Bill in Collections
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Top 5 Ways to Get Help With Your Medical Bills Fighting hospital bills yourself can be scary, especially if you don’t know where to start. We’ve listed the top 5 ways to get help with paying (or fighting) your medical bills to ultimately lower the amount that you owe. File For Medicaid If you … Top 5 Ways to Get Help With Your Medical Bills
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Intro You have insurance (and perhaps even a ‘Cadillac’ insurance plan) and go to a hospital or even a doctor to get treated for an illness. Maybe you even checked the hospital with your insurance company beforehand to make sure that it was ‘in-network’ and you were covered, or that your insurance would cover any … Balance Billing and Surprise Medical Bills
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