Quicken Medical Expense Manager

by Intuit, Inc.

Product Features

• Keep critical medical information in one place, including prescription history and records of bills, expenses and payments
• Take full advantage of medical tax deductions, find and fix billing errors, and make the most of your Flexible Spending Account
• Ideal for those coping with a chronic medical condition or for caregivers of someone who is ill
• Easily manage expenses and make sense of medical bills, prescription costs and insurance documents
• Works for any type of insurance from any insurance company, including Medicare and Medicaid

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AQTBQ8
• Item model number: WQP5G
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,529 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #35 in Software > Personal Finance > Investment Tools
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Quicken Medical Expense Manager makes it easy to track health care expenses for your whole family. Create a medical history for each individual, manage medical bills, prescription costs and payments so you don't overpay, find medical tax deductions and tax tips, and manage disputes — all in one place. Quicken Medical Expense Manager is a standalone product designed specifically to track medical expenses and at this point does not integrate with Quicken personal finance software or TurboTax.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea, but...., February 2, 2006

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QIOMD (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicken Medical Expense Manager (CD-ROM)

I was an early adopter of version 1; version 2 has just been released. While this software does what it purports to do, the issue is with Quicken's installation and support practices. QMEM requires the use of .NET framework v 1.1...NOT version 2. If you install it over .NET 2, its buggy and their techs online suggest you uninstall .NET 2. Catch - uninstalling .NET 2 will, on many Windows XP systems, make .NET 1.1 unstable.

Further, it is not possible to talk with Quicken MEM support. You can post a problem, leave you phone number, and they will contact you at their (not your) convienence.

What am I left with? 1) Back to doing my medical expenses by hand and 2) facing a Windows XPsp2 reinstall.

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good idea gone wrong, March 17, 2006

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Jim (Larchmont NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicken Medical Expense Manager (CD-ROM)

I found the 2.1 version (the latest version) slow and inflexibile. It actually produced the wrong answers for my health insurance policies and the results could not be adjusted manually. Also found the "Help" section far from helpful although on-line assistance was responsive (although unable to make it right). I think Intuit just got this program into the market too quickly without proper testing.

43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good idea if it had been kept simple, but too slow to use..., March 7, 2006

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tall-latte (Sammamish, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Quicken Medical Expense Manager (CD-ROM)

I was excited to hear about this product since I have a son with autism. My first reaction is that I wish this would have been a web-based product, since I frequently use multiple computers (Quicken would also be a great web-based product).

I have tried both the first version and the version 2.1 upgrade, and unfortunately Intuit made this a fat and slow product (I have high-end Pentium 4 PCs with 2GB RAM).

If Intuit had made this a simple, lightweight, fast program, they would have had a hit. I wish I had time to develop a web-based competitor, as this is an interesting product idea.

I will be checking to see if Intuit has a money-back satisfaction guarantee...