Posted on Feb 4, 2018
How to Fight an Outrageous Medical Bill – Better Blog
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RP Members & Connections this is a story about Col Dona Marie Iversen (former Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve and Registered Professional Nurse Executive) and how she took the fight to a health insurance company and won. This tale took place thirty years ago but, as we know at Better, the lesson is just as relevant today. If you want access to healthcare, you need to fight for it. And if you need to fight, you want someone like Dona on your side.
Some Things Change, Some Things Remain the Same
That this story is as relevant today, although it happened almost thirty ago, says something about the continuing problem in US healthcare where the patient is always being caught in the middle. We hear about patients going through the same issues every day. And for Dona, the fight goes on, as she works with RIP Medical Debt to help ordinary Americans who served this country and face the burden of medical debt.
Dona’s story is part of Better’s campaign to #beatjohnoliver and buyback $16M of medical debt using our initial revenue. We’ve partnered with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt whose mission is to abolish medical debt for good.
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Some Things Change, Some Things Remain the Same
That this story is as relevant today, although it happened almost thirty ago, says something about the continuing problem in US healthcare where the patient is always being caught in the middle. We hear about patients going through the same issues every day. And for Dona, the fight goes on, as she works with RIP Medical Debt to help ordinary Americans who served this country and face the burden of medical debt.
Dona’s story is part of Better’s campaign to #beatjohnoliver and buyback $16M of medical debt using our initial revenue. We’ve partnered with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt whose mission is to abolish medical debt for good.
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How to Fight an Outrageous Medical Bill – Better Blog
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Great share Mikel. Thank you.
A friend here in California had to go to the state's managed healthcare office to get her insurance to pay for one of her prescriptions. She claimed that the insurance person who denied the prescription was practicing medicine without a license. She won.
A friend here in California had to go to the state's managed healthcare office to get her insurance to pay for one of her prescriptions. She claimed that the insurance person who denied the prescription was practicing medicine without a license. She won.
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I ended a discussion about a medical question and won, by asking the person on the phone for the number from his/her license to practice medicine.
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Great story, COL Mikel J. Burroughs. Thank you for the share. Col Dona Marie Iversen, thank you for an example we can all follow. Glad you are on RP where we can learn from you.
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I have seen this kind of thing happen more than I would like. Liability and responsibility clash with insurance legalese and obfuscation. I have seen and heard of hospitals sending people home far sooner than they should and the results are often final. Thanks, for the story and thank you Dona.
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