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- Slash Your Medical Bills: 7 Ways to Haggle
- Don?t be shy about bargaining over doctors? fees and hospital charges. Insurance companies pay a small fraction of the list price of medical procedures. You have nothing to lose, and lots to gain, by asking for a similar deal. Rising out-of-pocket costs have...
- Articles 2009-11-04
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- Florida Businesswoman Specializes in Deciphering Medical Bills.
- By Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg Times, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 24--Roszetta Anderson, a 58-year-old widow and beauty shop owner, panicked when she faced more than $10,000 in unpaid medical bills last year. Then she heard about Debra Lupe....
- Research articles 1998-03-24
- Widow, Victim with Over $650K in Medical Bills Call for California Ban on Junk Health Plans As Congress Moves to Expand Them
- SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A consumer group and two patients with insurance who were left with $650,000 in medical bills called on the state legislature to cap the amount of money patients must pay out of pocket for health care. Later SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 7 /U.S. Newswire/...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
- Libya pays Jordan 25 million dollars in overdue medical bills
- AMMAN AFP — Libya has reportedly paid off an estimated 25 million dollars in overdue medical bills to Jordan, chalked up by sending thousands of its own citizens there for medical care. "A Libyan delegation visited Jordan and met with hospital officials and paid bills totaling 25 million dollars,"...
- Research articles 2005-07-09
- OLY: Stockholm paid drinks, medical bills of IOC members
- AAP Sports News Australia 02-11-1999 OLY: Stockholm paid drinks, medical bills of IOC members STOCKHOLM, Feb 10 DPA - Bills for medical treatment and alcohol incurred by members of the International Olympic Committee IOC were paid for by the...
- Research articles 1999-02-11
- Medical Bills of White Water E. coli Victim Forgiven by Scottish Rite — Parents Vow to Repay
- ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--May 15, 1999-- The parents of Jordan Shook, a four-year-old Cartersville girl who suffered kidney failure and a stroke as a result of being exposed to E. coli at the White Water park in Marietta last June, received a gift from Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center. The...
- Research articles 1999-05-17
- Former Employees of Las Vegas Casino Are Stuck with Medical Bills.
- By Rod Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Hundreds of Binion's Horseshoe former workers may have to pay millions in unpaid medical bills even though the gaming company deducted medical insurance premiums from their paychecks. Some...
- Research articles 2004-01-28
- Marler Clark L.L.P., P.S. Announcement: E. coli Attorney Calls on Taco Bell to Pay Victims' Medical Bills
- SEATTLE -- William Marler, a nationally-recognized food safety advocate and attorney, today called on Taco Bell and its parent company, Yum! Brands, Inc., "to do the right thing and immediately pay the medical bills for the victims of this most recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak traced to Taco Bell restaurants...
- Research articles 2006-12-05
- Montgomery, W.Va., Hospital Employees Worried about Unpaid Medical Bills.
- By Paul J. Nyden, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 31--Several Montgomery General Hospital employees are worried because their medical bills have not been paid for months. Richard Craigo, president of a United Steelworkers local that represents...
- Research articles 2002-07-31
- Health Care: Medical Bills Force Some Couples to Divorce
- Over the weekend, The New York Times' Nicholas D. Kristof wrote a touching column about his friend who felt torn between divorcing her sick husband and eventually living as an impoverished widow. The problem was that her spouse had early-onset dementia and as his care needs increased, so too would...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Why So Many Insured People Have Big Medical Debts
- One in seven adult Californians who are less than 65 years old are paying off medical debts in excess of $2,000. Remarkably, two-thirds of those debtors are insured, according to a study by the UCLA Center for Policy Research. Among the 2.2 million people who were paying...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Quicken Offers Prescription For Medical Expense Headaches; Breakthrough Software for Consumers Eases the Burden of Organizing and Tracking Medical Bills and Insurance Documents
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- When facing a serious medical situation, dealing with the mountain of bills and insurance documents could only add insult to injury.
- Research articles 2005-05-18
- Ingenix PowerTrak alert evaluates medical bills.(Technology Tools)
- Ingenix has developed an addition module for its PowerTrak medical bill review program. PowerTrak Alert helps identify questionable physicians and other health care providers before bills are paid to them, assisting companies to decrease losses caused by fraud. "It's much more difficult to...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Rights Group Calls on Pediatrician, Businessman Who FinancedDuncan's Legal Expenses to Fund Shasta Groene's Medical Bills,Education
- KENSINGTON, Md., July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "Throw Away The Key," a national advocacy group that works on behalf of past and future victims of crime, today demanded that the pediatrician and businessman who gave Joseph Edward Duncan III bail money and other legal expenses should fund a trust for...
- Research articles 2005-07-14
- Healthcare Roundup: United Proposes Reforms, Medical Home Update, Tenet Teams with Med3000, and More
- United The Reformer â€" UnitedHealth Group has proposed reforms that it says could save government health programs more than $540 million over the next decade. Under the big insurer’s approach, Uncle Sam would help healthcare providers reduce medical errors, improve chronic disease care, and do better case management. Adoption of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Mitchell International Showcases MedNeutral's Latest Development: The First Integrated Medical Billing and Medical Records Review Solution
- On March 9th-11th, Mitchell International, the property and casualty industry's leading provider of medical bill review solutions, hosted its 7th annual Industry Conference in Las Vegas, NV. At this year's invitation-only event, Mitchell International showcased MedNeutral, LLC and their new concept for a joint solution that will...
- Research articles 2009-04-14
- Insurer delays paying medical benefits: Bad faith: Emotional distress: Verdict: Punitive damages
- Insurer delays paying medical benefits: Bad faith: Emotional distress: Verdict: Punitive damages. Robinson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., Idaho, Ada County 4th Jud. Dist. Ct., No. CV-OC-9498099-D, Apr. 2, 1998. Robinson sued a tire repair company for injuries she had received in a car accident. While suit was...
- Research articles 1998-09-01
- Illness and Medical Bills Cause Half of All Bankruptcies; 2 Million Americans Financially Ruined Each Year; Harvard Study Finds 2,200 Percent Increase Since 1981; Most of Those Bankrupted by Illness Were Middle Class, Had Insurance.
- Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Feb. 2 AScribe Newswire -- Medical problems contributed to about half of all bankruptcies, involving 700,000 households in 2001, according to a story published today as a Web Exclusive by the journal Health Affairs. Families with children were...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- Health nuts: how Congress kept me from giving my employees Medical Savings Accounts - Column
- As a newspaper columnist and a writer for national magazines, I have spent much of my time the past several years advocating medical savings accounts as one solution to the nation's health care problems. MSAs would allow individuals and participating employers to put tax-advantaged money into special accounts from which...
- Research articles 1997-12-01
- Building nest eggs for medical bills - medical savings accounts
- Congress looks at tax-sheltered medical savings accounts to cut health-care costs. In a nation of people who typically aren't too concerned about what doctors charge because their insurance picks up most of the tab, Richard Norton has become a rare cost-conscious shopper. That's because his company's new health plan rewards...
- Research articles 1995-07-01
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