Category: Medical Debt

  • What is an Itemized Bill?

    What is an Itemized Bill?

    When you go to see a doctor, no matter whether it’s in a private practice, a large medical clinic, or an emergency room, everything that happens in that medical practice is going to be assigned a billing code. This includes little things like listening to your heart with a stethoscope to bigger things like x-rays…

  • How to Negotiate Health Care Bills

    How to Negotiate Health Care Bills

    It may sound impossible when you’re being hounded by debt collectors and medical practices demanding that you pay, but there are methods for how to negotiate a hospital bill down. The same goes for medical bills, lab bills, radiology bills and so much more. There are ways that you can work with a hospital’s billing…

  • How to Dispute Medical Bills

    How to Dispute Medical Bills

    How to dispute medical bills and how to dispute hospital bills are some of the most searched-for topics online, and that’s because the system is broken and so many people feel like they’re being taken advantage of.

  • What Happens When a Medical Bill Goes to Collections?

    What Happens When a Medical Bill Goes to Collections?

    Do you want to know the sad truth? You could very easily have a medical bill in collections and not even know it.  One third of all Americans have some bills–credit cards, house payments, car payments, and, yes, medical bills–in collections.  The sad fact is that there are so many bills that come when you…