Are you paying cash for healthcare? What if you can’t afford health insurance and your income is over the threshold to get financial assistance or charity care? Perhaps you don’t qualify for government-sponsored health plans (like Medicaid) or ACA subsidies (Obamacare tax credits). Or maybe you are underinsured because you have a ridiculously high deductible.…
It seems that no matter what medical problem you have, there’s going to be a large bill attached to it. Even if you’ve got good insurance and pay your co-pay, there will also be little things (or big things) that get added on, whether they’re labs, x-rays, other radiology, physical therapy, nutrition consulting, and on…
Have you been hit with unaffordable medical bills after a trip to the hospital or ER? Perhaps you found out the hard way that your insurance didn’t offer you enough coverage for these unanticipated expenses. Or worse, you had no healthcare coverage when you had to seek medical services. If this makes you worry about…
Medical debt is a reality for over 100 million people and the primary cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., even though the majority have health insurance. However, even with great medical insurance, a stressful health crisis can spiral into a financial disaster and a lifetime of medical debt. But what if we told you that…
As anyone who has ever been to the emergency room can tell you, an ER visit is expensive. And it’s expensive under the best of circumstances where you have good health coverage. But when you go to the emergency room without insurance the price can very quickly get into the thousands. Why Do So Many…
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