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Negotiate Your Medical Bills: Can You Pay Less for Health Care?

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I recently had a medical procedure wherein some of the providers were out of the insurance company's network. One of providers charged 3 times what my insurance company paid to them, the same that the insurance company would have paid 100% to an in-network provider. I am left to take care of the remainder of the bill.

I bought this book in the hope that it would help me to be able to negotiate with them for reduced fees. Basically this book shows the result of a simple survey that someone took in a small geographic area that shows some providers say they will negotiate and some say they won't. It provides absolutely no guidance on how to negotiate lower fees. This book was a waste of money for me.

I wouldn't have known it was even possible before reading this book. After reading the study and polls, it has given me the confidence to pursue lower health care costs. This book is just one step in the process of learning how to decrease my health expenses. I have already saved myself $150, the first time I negotiated. That's more than 10 times what I paid for the book.