What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt
A Health System Insider's 3 Steps to Protect Yourself from America's #1 Cause of Bankruptcy
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Medical bills can bury you in debt for the rest of your life, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
No matter how much you owe, there’s a better way to get rid of your medical debt beyond bankruptcy.
When Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington became a cancer patient, she faced insurmountable medical bills. That’s when she took her insider industry knowledge and put it to work. In Crush Medical Debt, she shares her secrets to help individuals, families, and veterans protect against America’s number-one cause of bankruptcy—medical debt. Filled with practical and step-by-step strategies, this guide provides the tools you need to stop spending money you don't owe and save yourself from becoming a victim of a predatory health care system.
You’ll discover:
- How to get rid of your medical debt and hospital bills in three simple steps—without going bankrupt.
- Definitions to help you catch common CPT code and medical bill mistakes.
- How to effectively communicate with your provider to fix mistakes in your bills or coverage, including COVID-19 and pandemic-related costs.
- What to do when your private insurance company, Medicaid, or Medicare won’t cover your medical costs.
- Debt management tips to negotiate a lower bill and set up an interest-free payment plan regardless of your credit score.
Get the health care you need while taking care of your financial health at the same time. Fight back against predatory billing practices! Uncover the secrets in Crush Medical Debt to free yourself from a lifetime of bills and save your financial life.
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- An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
- By: Jonathan Bush, Stephen Baker
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices.
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No critical thinking
- By Steve from MD on 07-31-14
By: Jonathan Bush, and others
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Handbook for a Post-Roe America
- By: Robin Marty
- Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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This comprehensive manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law explains how to get the healthcare you need - by any means necessary. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides listeners through various worst-case scenarios of a post-Roe America and offers ways to fight back, including how to acquire financial support, how to use existing networks and create new ones, and how to, when required, work outside existing legal systems.
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Old Version
- By Paige Clarkson on 01-26-23
By: Robin Marty
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If I Betray These Words
- Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It's So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First
- By: Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot
- Narrated by: Wendy Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury—what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.
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Dust bowl
- By Doc on 04-12-23
By: Wendy Dean, and others
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American Overdose
- The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
- By: Chris McGreal
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it.
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An important read
- By Macmom4 on 02-18-19
By: Chris McGreal
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Stealing Your Life
- The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
- By: Frank W. Abagnale
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Someone in the U.S. is an identity-theft victim every four seconds. It is extremely easy for anyone from anywhere in the world to assume your identity and, in a matter of hours, devastate your life in ways that can take years to recover from. Stealing Your Life is the reference everyone needs, by an unsurpassed authority on the latest identity-theft schemes.
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Want to Be Paranoid?
- By Sheila on 06-05-07
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The Landlord Entrepreneur
- Double Your Profits with Real Estate Property Management
- By: Bryan M. Chavis
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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The Landlord Entrepreneur shifts the focus from dealing exclusively with residential real estate to building a dynamic property management business. By following the step-by-step instructions in this new guide, anyone can create a fully functioning, professional property management company in only 10 days. With Chavis's modern take on real estate, you will learn the five phases of property management and the skills needed to successfully move through them - as well as the hacks and tricks to build your profitable business from the ground up.
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Good general guide but gineric information.
- By Daniel Gutierrez on 10-14-17
By: Bryan M. Chavis
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The Five Years Before You Retire
- Retirement Planning When You Need It the Most
- By: Emily Guy Birken
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Even though half of all Americans put money aside for retirement, it isn't until they reach their 60s that many realize that they haven't saved enough. With The Five Years Before You Retire, you'll hone in on what you need to do in the next five years to maximize your current savings and create a realistic plan for your future. This book guides you through each financial, medical, and familial decision, from taking advantage of the employer match your company offers for your 401(k) program to enrolling in Medicare to discussing housing options with your family.
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Very basic information
- By KC on 01-02-17
By: Emily Guy Birken
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Debt-Free Living
- By: Larry Burkett
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Credit is so easily obtained and credit card applications flow into our mailboxes virtually every day. Many couples find themselves deeply in debt and not even sure of how they got there, let alone how they can get out of it. Larry Burkett has the solution! His best-selling book, Debt-Free Living, has been updated and modernized
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A sales pitch disguised as a self help book
- By Todd on 10-25-12
By: Larry Burkett
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The Index Card
- Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
- By: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
- Narrated by: Helaine Olen, Harold Pollack
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an award-winning financial journalist and the author of the best-selling Pound Foolish, he made an offhand suggestion: Everything you need to know about managing your money could fit on an index card.
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Getting your personal finance right? Start here.
- By Alan J on 04-27-18
By: Helaine Olen, and others
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You Don't Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement
- How to Maintain Your Lifestyle Without Getting a Job or Cutting Corners
- By: Marc Lichtenfeld
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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You Don’t Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement is a survival guide for your golden years, and a lifeline for those entering the Retirement Crisis unprepared. Roughly 45 percent of Americans have zero dollars saved for retirement - but the average retiree will spend $154,000 in out-of-pocket health care costs alone. We need to figure out how to generate more income, even in retirement, and spend less. How do we boost our retirement income? Is investing the way to go? This book does more than just answer the important questions - it gives you real-world tips to help you reach your financial goals.
By: Marc Lichtenfeld
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated
- The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security
- By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Moeller, Paul Solman
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that take effect on April 29, 2016. Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits. It is an engaging manual of tactics and strategies written by well-known financial commentators that is unobtainable elsewhere.
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wow, and I thought I knew a couple of things
- By Treasur2 on 09-07-19
By: Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and others
What listeners say about What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt
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- Dina D, Strachan, M.D. (Dr Dina MD)
- 08-14-22
Should be required reading!
This is an actionable and simplified summary of the economics and pitfalls of paying for healthcare. insurance is a complex topic even for those of us in the industry- but it does not have to be. Dr. Virgie goes through the step-by-step process of understanding insurance, patient rights, and how to go about investigating and addressing a medical bill one thinks is incorrect--it may be worth applying these principles routinely as billing mistakes are common. This book would be great.in high school and college life skills classes, and as part of any health professional training curriculum.
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