by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Dec 12, 2014 | Medical Debt
Welcome back. In our last post, we discussed the situation a 29-year-old Wisconsin woman found herself in after suffering a freak heart attack last year. The woman had health insurance, but because she was brought by ambulance to a hospital out of her insurance...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Dec 10, 2014 | Medical Debt
If you have ever suffered an unexpected serious illness or injury, you probably worried that you were going to wind up in the hospital again after receiving the bills for your treatment. Finding out that you owe thousands upon thousands of dollars in bills that seem...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Nov 26, 2014 | Medical Debt
Welcome back. In our first post we began discussing steps to take after a serious illness or injury strikes and leaves you in over your head with medical debt. The first three steps involved organizing your bills, looking for errors and appealing rejected claims with...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Nov 24, 2014 | Medical Debt
All it takes is one unexpected medical procedure or hospitalization for the bills to start piling up.Not only do you have to deal with trying to recover, you also have to deal with the medical bills that keep arriving in your mailbox. This can be a very frustrating...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Oct 21, 2014 | Medical Debt
If you recently suffered a serious illness or injury, chances are that your treatment racked up an enormous medical bill. Unfortunately, all it takes is one hospitalization to drive you into debt that seems insurmountable.In fact, medical bills are one of the primary...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Oct 6, 2014 | Medical Debt
The cost of prescription drugs can add up quickly each month, especially for people living on a fixed income, which includes many of Wisconsin’s senior citizens. If you are someone with expensive prescriptions to fill and you are living on a fixed income, you have...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Sep 9, 2014 | Medical Debt
After you have missed several payments on a credit card balance or another outstanding debt, the creditor might decide to turn the debt over to a third-party collection agency or debt collector. Creditors do this because it is often more lucrative for them to have a...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Aug 29, 2014 | Medical Debt
According to many financial experts, one of the things that consumers should do every year is secure a free copy of their credit report from one of the three major credit bureaus. This simple step, they argue, can enable them to ensure that there are no errors present...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Aug 18, 2014 | Medical Debt
As we have discussed in past posts, student loan debt can be extremely hard to get rid of, even for people who file for bankruptcy because of crippling medical debt. That’s why a member of Congress has proposed a small change in the consumer bankruptcy laws that...
by Miller & Miller Law, LLC | Aug 16, 2014 | Medical Debt
Imagine that you are injured in an accident and require medical treatment. But due to a misunderstanding regarding your health insurance, you end up having to pay more out of pocket than you had anticipated. You now find yourself in a situation many Americans have...