{"id":692,"date":"2015-08-23T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-08-23T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:34:48","slug":"part-i-how-can-you-protect-yourself-against-mistakes-in-doctors-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"How can you protect yourself against mistakes in doctors&#8217; bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Elizabeth Bewley<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>dcourier.com)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Errors in medical bills are common. Seven steps noted below can help you reduce the odds of paying more than you should.\u00a0First, don&#8217;t pay cash in the doctor&#8217;s office. If you must pay a deductible, co-pay, or other charge in person, pay by check or credit card. That way, you&#8217;ll have more records (cancelled check image, credit card bill) to show that you paid. <a href=\"http:\/\/dcourier.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&amp;SubsectionID=1&amp;ArticleID=148989\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Elizabeth Bewley,\u00a0dcourier.com) &nbsp; &nbsp; Errors in medical bills are common. Seven steps noted below can help you reduce the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}