Surgery is often a frightening ordeal, but paying the bills can be even worse.
It’s often not as simple as going in for a check-up at your local family doctor, and if you don’t plan properly it could cost you a lot of money.
The Associated Press recently released an article that helps outline the checks you [...]
The new reforms to health care are as important as they are confusing. Time Magazine online is reporting that there are important changes that go in to effect at various times over the next several years that could have a big impact on how you pay for health care.
Here’s an in-depth guide into the changes, [...]
A singled missed step has left an Illinois farmer struggling with medical debt and complex insurance rules.
Checking the grain bin is part of farmer Jason Hass’ routine. But after he missed a run and fell 15 feet he ended up in the hospital with a broken leg and several compressed vertebrae.
His medical bills have already [...]
As medical bills have continued to rise more people are turning to what was once a little-known tactic: Negotiation.
While people may feel comfortable talking down the price of a car on the auto-lot or haggling with a booth operator at a flea market, for many people this strategy feels out of place in a doctor’s [...]
Medical bills are not cheap, especially for those patients stricken with a serious illness such as cancer. Across the country, cancer patients have seen a big jump in cost for their treatment and care.
A recent study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the overall medical expenses for cancer patients have [...]
The debate around a Texas program that provides health insurance for children of the working poor is heating up again as the state looks for ways to close a hole in the budget.
Known as CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program currently covers more than 500,000 children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medicare, [...]
Several provisions of Obama’s health care reform have started earlier than expected. Policy holders did not expect to see any changes with their insurance until September 2010.
But some recent bad and a Congressional investigation is prompting some insurance companies to adopt some changes ahead of schedule.
One provision of the new health reform bill included prohibited [...]
Preventive care doesn’t always mean more trips to the doctor’s office. It can mean more trips to the super market. There may have been something behind the old adage of “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Perhaps we could tweak it to say an apple a day keeps the medical debt away.
One thing that [...]
Medical bills and the debt they cause have been a big source of debt for many Americans, forcing many to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
But for the past ten years, some Christian groups have taken it upon themselves to care for each other and fight back against medical bills by starting health care sharing ministries.
MSNBC [...]
Maryland joined 23 other states with their passage of a new law designed to fight medical bill fraud.
A few weeks back we wrote how medical bill identity theft is on the rise. The state of Maryland agrees, and hopes to recover close to $20 million a year with the new law, reports the Associated Press.
This [...]
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