Fixing Incorrect Medical Bills

What a fracking nightmare. You go to the doctor once and end up with 10 different bills from people you didn't even see. For this rant I'll let alone the topic of questionable billing amounts from the physicians to the insurance companies and how there is apparantly no verification that a bill is correct. I recently went to the same clinic, saw two different doctors for the same amount of time - both primary care doctors. The bill to the insurance company is different by more than 100 dollars. So let me ignore that for now and just say by asking the right questions, I have saved myself over $1800 of incorrect overcharges to myself from both a hospital and my insurance company. Through this, I've learned the quickest way to get these problems dealt with and am willing to share them with you for free.

When you have a bill that is obviously wrong:
- Call your insurance company. They will either accept fault or say the hospital shouldn't have billed you anything else which is in fact ILLEGAL.
- If they say the hospital/doctor shouldn't have billed anything additional, immediately request a conference call with the physicians office. Requesting this conference call saves an amazing amount of time.

The bill should be cleared up in the next few minutes unless you misunderstood the details of your own insurance plan.