The Medical Bill Survival Guide: What You Need to Know Before You Pay a Dime
- List Price: $6.99
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Warner Books
- Publish date: 12/01/1999
Description:
"The Medical Bill Survival Guide" explains how readers can protect themselves from medical overcharges, duplicate charges, hidden charges, and mischarges from hospitals, HMOs, physical therapists, labs, and doctor's offices. The simple step-by-step instructions explain:
-- How to deal with accounting shorthand and medicalese on the bill
-- How to respond to a billing staff trained not to answer patients' questions
-- The patient's financial bill of rights
-- and more.
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-- How to deal with accounting shorthand and medicalese on the bill
-- How to respond to a billing staff trained not to answer patients' questions
-- The patient's financial bill of rights
-- and more.
Additionally, the book shows readers how to negotiate with insurance companies -- who can pass on large billing charges to consumers, or worse, leave patients holding the bag -- as well as how to successfully deal with a medical insurer when treatments are denied.
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