Article: Medical bills land hard-working family in an American nightmare

Article: Unpaid medical bills dogging firefighters
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 22, 2005 ;     173 words ......in how the city handles the medical bills of firefighters injured in...members are getting bills and collection notices from hospitals for late medical bills that the city is expected to...shouldn't be forced to deal with medical bills incurred in the line of duty...night ...

Article: Laid-off phone workers have big medical bills, no answers
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 29, 2004 ;     682 words ......Laid-off phone workers have big medical bills, no answers By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF...Editions.=.Sunday Faced with mounting medical bills and collection agencies, former employees of NorVergence...and some had been contacted by collection agencies for medical expenses ...

Article: Florida Businesswoman Specializes in Deciphering Medical Bills.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ......she faced more than $10,000 in unpaid medical bills last year. Then she heard about Debra...Consulting Experts in Inverness, audits medical bills to find errors and overcharges. She...mounting frustration with outrageous medical bills. Even when patients have insurance...

Article: DON'T FORGET TO DOUBLE-CHECK MEDICAL BILLS.(CNY)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  February 5, 2008 ;     389 words ......the same when it comes to our medical bills. But we should. Reports tell us that as many as eight out of 10 medical bills contain errors. Why aren't we...from the payment process. Our medical bills are sent to our insurer first...

Article: COMPANY TO ISSUE CREDIT CARD TO PAY UNINSURED MEDICAL BILLS.
Cardline;  July 19, 2002 ;     171 words ......consumers to pay their uninsured medical bills, T.E. Tim King, CEO of KingThomason...KingThomason $8 million in uncollected medical bills. A credit card is needed to help patients pay their medical bills because health insurance company...

Article: Survey: Adults in Midwest, South Have More Problems Paying Medical Bills Than Those in Other Regions of U.S.; More Than 40 Percent of Midwestern Adults Reported Problems Paying Medical Bills.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service;  March 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ......adults say they had problems with their medical bills or were paying off accrued medical...difficulty paying or were unable to pay medical bills. Other problems reported included being...Midwesterners reported their share of medical bills had increased by a lot or a moderate...

Article: Over 40% of Midwestern U.S. adults report problems paying medical bills.
Biotech Week;  April 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ......adults say they had problems with their medical bills or were paying off accrued medical...difficulty paying or were unable to pay medical bills. Other problems reported included being...Midwesterners reported their share of medical bills had increased by a lot or a moderate...

Article: Medical bills drive many into poverty.
Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN);  September 28, 2008 ;     553 words ......facing more than $50,000 in medical bills. But between trying to...have sent her bills to collection agencies, which in turn send letters...people with insurance had medical bills they couldn't afford to...to pay for catastrophic medical bills that can reach into ...

Article: MSAS PERMIT SOME TO SAVE FOR MEDICAL BILLS.(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 16, 1997 ;     694 words ......certain sum, every year, to be used for medical bills. That money is tax-free. The insurer...funds. Any money you don't spend on medical bills can be carried forward from year to...deductible is the amount you pay for medical bills before your policy kicks in.) High...

Article: Former Multi-CAP workers struggle to pay medical bills
Charleston Gazette;  August 3, 2001 ;     445 words ......their doctors for more time to pay medical bills left after their health insurance benefits...realize that Multi-CAP was not paying the medical bills. In May, the agency could not make...worker Lisa Blankenship has $3,500 in medical bills, she said at the creditors' meeting...

Article: Medical Bills Play Bankruptcy Role
AP Online;  April 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Business Writer AP Online 04-26-2000 Medical Bills Play Bankruptcy Role WASHINGTON (AP...because of declining health or the medical bills of a failing or deceased spouse. For...Either way, a new study says disastrous medical bills play a significant role in personal...

Article: "Smart Card" to Clear Medical Bills in U.S
Xinhua English Newswire;  December 11, 1997 ;     157 words ...American companies are finding ways to speed up the clearance of medical bills. The chip-embeded electronic card is one way to it. The initiative...will pay before leaving. About 40 percent of the 3.7 billion medical bills issued each year in the country are already processed electronically...

Article: Schaumburg man sent to prison, must pay medical bills.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 19, 2007 ;     113 words ......to a short prison stay and ordered to shell out money for medical bills after pleading guilty Tuesday to two counts of battery. Ardit...total of $4,400 in restitution. The money will go toward the medical bills of the victims, who were treated at a hospital afterward...

Article: FUND-RAISER FOR JOINED TWINS NETS $1,918 TOWARD MEDICAL BILLS
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 3, 1993 ;     314 words ......and applied to the family's mounting medical bills. "Everything was quite nice," said...Angela's body has the heart and liver. The medical bills of parents Kenneth and Reitha "Joey...fund-raiser was advertised to defray medical bills, that is the only legal use allowable...