Texas mom Jenni Sisson used Marshall Allen's techniques to challenge an inflated ER code and apply for hospital financial assistance, cutting her daughter's surgery costs by over $4,400. She saved about $400 by fixing the billing error alone and more than $4,000 through the assistance program.
I absolutely love to help people protect themselves from getting ripped off by the American health care system. And one of my favorite stories involves a Texas mom named Jenny Sisson. Jenny read my book, Never Pay the First Bill, and I love how she put the techniques and tactics into practice. Her daughter, Eliza, had to go to the emergency room because she had appendicitis. And when Jenny got that emergency room bill, she noticed that the hospital was guilty of upcoding. Upcoding is an extremely common problem with medical bills that you should look out for on your medical bills. And basically what happens is they bill you for a level of service that was more complicated than the care that you actually received. And in this case, they billed Jennie Level 5 emergency room bill when it should have been maybe a level three. And Jennie noticed that she called the billing department and she said, hey, this billing code looks like it's a little too complicated for the type of care I actually received. You know what they did? They immediately waived that bill. That was more than $400 that Jenny saved right there. But Jenny didn't stop there. Her daughter ended up getting transferred to another hospital where she had her appendix removed. Jenny, because she had learned about financial assistance programs in hospitals through my book, applied for financial assistance at the hospital. Hospital financial assistance policies can be very, very generous, and all nonprofit hospitals in the United States are required to provide financial assistance. Boom. She filled out the one page piece of paperwork, she submitted it with some verification of her income, and she saved more than $4,000 on that second surgery at that second hospital. So right there, one patient, one family saved thousands of dollars just by applying a little bit of knowledge, asking a few questions, staying alert, and staying engaged. My book, my videos, my resources show you how to do it. Check out the links below and let me know how it goes.
Marshall Allen, "Never Pay the First Bill' Part 1 | The Ovation Show w/ Dan Labroad
