How to haggle over medical bills
You have more options than you might realize with health care bills. If you know how to cut down the original billed amount, you can save a great deal.
You have more options than you might realize with health care bills. If you know how to cut down the original billed amount, you can save a great deal.
Fewer Americans are going to the dentist — and the cost of care continue to rise for those who do. Meanwhile, dentists face financial pressures in a struggling and changing industry.
Sometimes your health insurer doesn’t want to pay for a treatment because it thinks it won’t help you. Don’t give up; several options are available, including an appeal.
A provision in the health care overhaul encourages people with flexible spending accounts to seek a doctor’s OK before buying over-the-counter medications.
House Republicans have voted to repeal the health care reforms that became law last year — an effort likely to go nowhere. But that’s not opponents’ only strategy.
Out-of-pocket expenses for retirees will go down, thanks to health care reform, but a 65-year-old couple will still need a big chunk of savings to ensure the bills are paid.
Experts tell where people are most likely to go wrong when they try to properly protect their families. (The biggest mistake would be not buying it at all.)
If there’s money left in your flexible spending account at the end of the year, you need to figure out how to use it — otherwise you risk losing it.
Drugstore clinics are undeniably convenient, and universal health care could mean primary care doctors are overloaded. What can you expect from a retail-based clinic?
Not only is it a horrific crime, it’s insurance fraud. And not being convicted (or even charged) in a death does not necessarily mean a beneficiary can collect.
