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...
It happens every day – people get medical bills in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for their medical care. And we fight these bills every day all day. We’ve saved millions of dollars so far. We’ve given examples of medical bills we’ve...
Before we get into actually dealing with COVID-19 related medical bills it’s important to note that if you think you might have the virus don’t wait, get tested. Your health is the most important thing. It’s a sad state of affairs when the fear of outrageous medical...
We see it every day – people receive bills in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousand dollar range for their medical care. Sometimes it’s because they didn’t have insurance and the hospital is just trying to grab as much money as possible, sometimes...
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...
Balance billing is one of the more common hospital billing errors that we come across as well as one of the most confusing to identify and understand. We’ll be writing a series of posts discussing the different elements of balance billing, what’s being done by policy...
