Bills
3 things you should know about ‘surprise medical bills’
(BPT) – Patients receiving medical care increasingly also receive something unexpected and troubling — a bill they thought would be paid by their health insurance plan. Without knowing, patients may be treated by physicians or providers outside their health insurance network who are paid at a lower rate than an in-network physician. Patients are then expected […]
Medical Bills: Even Worse Than You Thought
Seems like every other day, theres a story about how health care costs are absurd or confounding. You may have seen the powerful 60 Minutes story[1] last week on how cancer drugs are regularly priced at $100,000 a year, suggesting that pharmaceutical companies essentially charge whatever they think they can get away with. (After Memorial […]