When your Health Insurance claim is denied or your health insurer refuses pre-approval for the care you need, you may think your hands are tied. But there’s actually a lot you can do to try getting that decision reversed All Health Insurance policies have an appeals...

Medical billing mistakes are rampant, as we recently covered. One way to catch a mistake from a biller is to check the charges against your Health Insurance Explanation of Benefits (EOB). An EOB is “the insurance company’s written explanation regarding a claim,...

Do you know how sometimes when you're at the grocery store, the cashier accidentally keys in your watermelon as, say, garlic cloves? Or a package of AA batteries falls on the conveyor belt and ends up on your tab? That kind of thing can happen with medical bills. With...

Getting sick or hurt enough to go to the ER feels terrible enough. What's sometimes nearly as bad, however, is the dread and anxiety of waiting for the inevitable medical bill—the one that’ll risk putting you in the financial equivalent of the intensive care unit,...