Does your medical bill seem to be too high? Maybe it is

There are many steps one can take if he thinks his medical bills seem to be too high. Here are a few.

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State News

June 1, 2020 - 9:33 AM

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Got a medical bill that seems too high? First step: Ask if there’s been a mistake. Next step, fight back.

The tips below come from a dozen experts in law, medical billing and patient advocacy.

They agreed on many points, including this frustrating one: None of these strategies is guaranteed to make a big — even blatantly excessive — medical bill go away. They represent a scattershot approach for people with urgent bills now — who can’t sit around and wait for Congress to pass reforms to medical billing.

‘Don’t just let the bills pile up and don’t just ignore them.’

George Nation, a professor of law and business at Lehigh University, says your biller can argue later that you never contested the charge and essentially admitted you owe it.

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