Medical Bill Help Book Educates Patients

WESTMINSTER, CO, April 20, 2011 (Press-News.org) Nicholas Newsad, the senior analyst of a national surgery center company, clears the air between medical providers and insurance companies in his latest book, Medical Bill Help.

"To access hospital financial assistance or charity care you have to clearly communicate financial hardship in specific terms," says Newsad. "Patient account representatives are always trying to discern the difference between those who are truly unable to pay medical bills and those who are merely unwilling to pay. The more certain they are that someone is unable to pay, the more likely they will set up payment plans, give discounts, and waive balances on hospital bills. The more certain they are that someone is unwilling to pay, the more likely the account will go to collections. "

In Medical Bill Help, Newsad goes on to explain that not-for-profit hospitals and similar medical providers have to provide charity medical care in the form of free care and write-offs or the IRS will penalize them for unpaid "back taxes". And because so many physicians are becoming employees of these not-for-profit hospitals, the same rules are starting to apply for physician bills as well. They can and will do this, but they have to have some evidence of inability.

Medical Bill Help is available as a low-cost ebook for Kindle and the free "Kindle for PC" reader.

Westminster Cambridge Conglomerate is the publisher of Medical Bill Help and The Medical Bill Survival Guide.

Website: http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bill-Help-Understand-ebook/dp/B004X1X950