Medical Refund Service, Inc.

05/23/2023

If you have a Medicare Advantage plan and your claims were denied, Appeal!

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/senators-press-medicare-advantage-insurers-over-claims-denials?fbclid=IwAR38dG3rup7L5awkMMBrfWz7onG-Iw5Md6-TDPH3botCrBDMF-Y6wzcoebI

Pharmacy benefit managers weren't the only ones on the hot seat in Congress this week. | The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations put Medicare Advantage plans on notice Wednesday, demanding answers for claims denials.

04/21/2023

Senators Introduce Bill To Cap Insulin Price For Those With Private Insurance
The proposed legislation would require insurance plans to cap the price patients pay at no more than $35 per month and addresses the role of pharmacy benefit managers. The Inflation Reduction Act put such a limit in place for Medicare beneficiaries and President Joe Biden has called on Congress to extend the measure.

02/09/2023

A husband & wife each received a rabies shot after having a bat in their house. The total bill was $206,285!

A Solano County couple went to the hospital for rabies shots after finding a bat in their house and the bill from that single, simple visit? More than $200,0...

01/04/2022

All year long Kaiser Health News looked at some, very high and strange, medical bills and here are the ones that became "The Bill of the Month" for 2021--take a Look:

Our crowdsourced investigation of the high, confusing and arbitrary medical bills generated by our health system is set to begin its fifth year in 2022.

01/04/2022

As of 1/1/2022 the "Surprise Medical Bills" Act took place, if you have a planned surgery & the hospital and surgeon are "In Network" but the Anesthesiologist and Radiologist aren't, they should be covered as in network. But they forgot to include the Ambulance bills, although most are Never in Network.

Millions of Americans have new federal protections from unexpected medical costs if they see a doctor they did not choose and who doesn’t accept their insurance. For years, the price tag from surprise medical bills could range from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands. But a new law that took ...

08/24/2021

What types of errors to look for on a hospital bill!

https://www.pennlive.com/living/2013/07/watch_for_common_hospital_bill.html?fb_action_ids=10200418235160076&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[344740352325078]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[%22s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like%22]&fbclid=IwAR0rragxiQX9rpMKfoWQPjQnBxbRC9IH1u3SRMXnjbCxmeTcJRpozLnKxRI

From the moment someone is referred to a hospital to the day of discharge – hundreds of billing code decisions, interpretations and entries are made every step of a patient’s journey.

08/17/2021

ReWalk Robotics CEO Larry Jasinski on the company's device that helps people walk after being paralyzed.

08/17/2021

I posted this in 2018 and now this is available on Medicare's list of approved medical equipment as of October 2020. Anything that can take someone out of a wheelchair is awesome :)

https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5823398908001?fbclid=IwAR0Sqt9REh5Q4kyMY2b7QpBosZSmPkTT7ajJgsjOKNcKbR1rr-qnfkh_SCo =show-clips

ReWalk Robotics CEO Larry Jasinski on the company's device that helps people walk after being paralyzed.

08/06/2021

Even though vaccinated, you may still get sick!

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0804-breakthrough-covid-20210803-t32trfpiwzdf5okfar45f64whi-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0sl06B5ZUMBl6ztvH4SUwrjN9P0yABxdb2Pn90vBkJOru3ujisBD6DtGw

When fully vaccinated people experience so-called “breakthrough” infection, they tend not to progress to serious disease requiring hospitalization, and I expect that will be the case for us. But I can tell you that even a “mild” case of COVID-19 is pretty miserable.

08/02/2021

Do you ride a bike? Do you have health insurance?

A bicyclist from California competed in a Pennsylvania race that could have landed him in this month’s Tokyo Olympics. Instead, a crash on the velodrome track landed him in two hospitals where his …

07/22/2021

Lost your taste or smell from Covid?

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/11/10/covid-smell?fbclid=IwAR2uEkyhdmdhz4K-GEWabJDU0BS_bkcwHEZYZbB47sRov2H8Hk7wgpIkzB0

While many Covid-19 patients have reported losing their senses of smell and taste, some patients are experiencing something a little different: The disease has changed—rather than eliminated—their senses of smell and taste, with at least one patient reporting that it's made wine taste like gasol...

07/20/2021

How to Save on Your Prescriptions

The cost of prescription drugs is out of control in some cases. Here's how to make sure you're getting the best possible price on the medicines you need.