Course 02

Understanding Your Medical Bill

“The path to fixing a bill is not arguing about whether you needed the care. It is checking whether the care was coded correctly.”

Three out of four medical bills have errors. Learn to read yours like the billing department that wrote it.

7 lessons·Lesson 1 is free

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Course outline

  1. 1

    Anatomy of a bill

    9 min readFree
  2. 2

    Bill vs. EOB vs. itemized statement

    8 min readPro
  3. 3

    CPT codes, ICD codes, and the language of billing

    9 min readPro
  4. 4

    Common billing errors

    10 min readPro
  5. 5

    Balance billing, surprise bills, and the NSA

    9 min readPro
  6. 6

    Facility fees and other traps

    9 min readPro
  7. 7

    When a bill is wrong

    9 min readPro