Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care

Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care by Orin, Rhonda. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312267605.

Most people dont understand health insurance, and insurance companies know it. Unfair denials, late payments, and hopeless confusion are the norm. At last there is a solution. In eight easy steps, Making Them Pay gives practical advice about the things that drive people crazy. Like: -Figuring out what health plans really say -Understanding what benefits they provide -Finding, and understanding, the exclusions -Determining what health plans really cost -How to talk to customer service, and other painful details -Easy ways to keep good records -Laws that can change your life-like the mandatory benefits laws in all fifty states -How to prepare successful appeals Along with this useful advice, Making Them Pay offers a much-needed sense of humor. Its filled with cartoons, sidebars, and vignettes that will make you laugh as you learn. Based on Rhonda D. Orins extensive experience as a litigator, a journalist, and a mother fighting her own familys insurance battles, Making Them Pay is the book your health insurer doesnt want you to read.