Even the excessively slow payment of justifiable expenses can bankrupt patients who had no idea their medical care would be so costly or who thought they were covered by insurance, only to find that one or more of their doctors was “out of network,” making the patients “out of luck” and having to pay the full, sometimes exorbitant, medical bills. Knowing how the system works can help you speed up the process.
Baffling billing by hospitals and doctors combined with obscure exceptions, conditions, or requirements in their medical insurance policies leave many people feeling overwhelmed just when at their weakest.
I became determined to write and speak on behalf of the mistreated and the bilked, using the expertise I had gained in my decades in the medical billing and insurance fields.
I hope our book will bring valuable resources and needed reassurance to those caught in our modern medical money maelstrom.
Adria Goldman Gross, FIPC, MedWise Insurance Advocacy
Having fought successfully to win millions of dollars of continuing medical insurance coverage for my wife, bedridden with multiple sclerosis for over two decades, with around-the-clock skilled nursing for the past eleven years, I [DWC] was pleased to assist patient advocate Adria Goldman Gross.
Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.