Speaking of Seniors – Another Client Saved Money
A client drove over 85 miles one way for my help with a laboratory bill of $253.01.
The client lived closer to our office in the past. But, she moved away from this area and kept her Medicare supplement insurance policy with our firm because she was happy with our service.
She brought a bill from a laboratory for $253.01 and asked for help to resolve it.
I checked with the client’s insurance company. Medicare never sent the claim to the insurance company. I wrote a letter to the laboratory company and explained that the bill did not get paid because Medicare never sent the claim to the client’s insurance company.
In the letter, I requested that the laboratory send the essential information on the claim directly to our client’s insurance company. I am confident that when that is done, the claim will be paid. This will save our client $253.01.
Millions of other senior citizens around the country need this kind of help, too. Medicare fails to send claims information to insurance companies often. Then, claims don’t get paid. Don’t blame the insurance companies. They can’t be expected to pay claims that they never get.
When senior citizens’ claims don’t get paid, the senior citizens are bombarded with payment demand letters and phone calls until they pay. Isn’t it sad that senior citizens pay for bills that they really don’t owe just because the Medicare system works so badly?
If Obama and his allies in Congress succeed in forcing a national health care system that is modeled on Medicare onto the entire population, then everyone can start to experience medical bill problems that are similar to the $253.01 bill that our client experienced.
Woodrow Wilcox is the senior medical bill problem solver at Senior Care Insurance Services in Merrillville, Indiana. That is the largest senior citizen oriented insurance agency in the Midwest. For over six years, Woodrow Wilcox has helped senior citizens with medical bill problems with Medicare and VA clinics. He has saved senior citizens over $600,000 in wrongful charges. For more health care articles by Wilcox, visit www.medicareproblems.net or www.woodrowwilcox.com.
© 2009 Woodrow Wilcox. Re-published here with the permission of the author.
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