One would think that I, being a health care finance consultant by profession, would know better. However, my learning a lesson I actually knew about becomes a teaching experience for you the next time you visit either your physician or the hospital for a procedure. PACAF via Compfight I needed to have some lab work […]

People dump all over health care when it comes to pricing and billing. Truth be told, the process of capturing charges should be easy… but it’s not. The process of telling patients how much they might owe on their medical bill should be relatively easy… but it’s not. World Bank Photo Collection via Compfight It’s […]

CNN once did a news story on people who have been scammed by fake insurance plans. In these cases, people who were in dire health straits would look on the internet, find someone purporting to cover a certain area of the country, most probably the area where the people lived, signed up, started paying premiums, […]

At some point your life you’ll have to deal with a hospital bill. If you’re lucky it’ll be for an outpatient service like lab work or an x-ray instead of needing surgery or being an inpatient. steinchen via Pixabay Hopefully you’ll have insurance to take care of the bulk of the bill, no matter what […]

I guess it’s been more than 4 years since I’ve written an article more for the rights of patients than talking to those who are already in health care, although when I talked about hospital charges I’m betting that most people working at hospitals don’t know much of this stuff either. ReSurge International via Compfight […]