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Hey Justin it’s great to hear you’re feeling better and hopefully have resolved your health issues.

If you’re unaware, you can and should ALWAYS negotiate your medical bills. NEVER pay the full amount. Quite honestly, providers (especially hospitals) DO NOT EXPECT full payment. They never ever get it from insurance companies. If you offer 40 percent they will likely be quite happy with that. I know this from working in this arena while employed as a paralegal for years.

Last but not least, request that the hospital provide you with itemized statements of all charges! Be persistent until they give it to you. They will not want to because they never do this. We all expect and always get an itemized receipt for fast food orders and pretty much every other thing we purchase, yet the largest bills we incur do not provide itemized statements.

You can certainly (and should) incorporate your statement requests with your negotiation of the charges. Trust me, you will get your bills reduced massively! Maybe less than 40

Percent.

I requested an itemized statement 41 years ago when my youngest son was born. It was a quick and easy delivery and we left the hospital after 16 hours. So I knew from having worked in hospital

Environment that they charges by “trays”. It took

about 9 months to receive itemized bill and just as I expected, I was charged for all kinds of things that I did not have and procedures that were not done, resulting in a significant reduction of the amount due. As I recall, it was reduced approximately 60 percent.

Play hard ball. Have fun doing it. Everyone should do this. We need to stop letting the medical system hijack our lives in a multitude of ways!

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doug222's avatar

If you write me. Say. “Hey 222”. Your one of the few people i would be happy to speak with

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