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COVID-19: How to Avoid Unexpected Telemedicine Bills
With thanks to advocate and guest blogger, Rob Berman. Find Rob’s advocacy profile here: Systemedic, Inc Medical Bill Advocate As COVID-19 (coronavirus) alarmingly spreads throughout the nation, telemedicine is becoming an increasingly...
Understanding Some Health Insurance Basics
With thanks to advocate and guest blogger, Gabrielle Hochberg. Find Gabrielle’s advocacy profile here: Health Advocate Experts One area you may not know as much about is health insurance. And...
How To Manage Your Loved One’s Care Remotely
With thanks to advocate and guest blogger, Cheryl Scharoun (edited by Audrey Zhang) Find Cheryl’s advocacy profile here: Baby Boom Health Do you have a loved one in a Rehabilitation...
How To Prepare For A Hospitalization: A Checklist
With thanks to advocate and guest blogger, Kim McIlnay. Find Kim's advocacy profile here: Together Patient Advocates, LLC Under the best of circumstances, a hospital stay can be stressful and...
Tax Time! Can You Deduct the Cost of Your Patient Advocate?
(Updated in 2020, regarding Tax Year 2019) I've spent most of the weekend working on my income tax filing. Yeah. You know. The fun never ends. Then the lightbulb moment...
An “Advance” New Year’s Resolution
Happy 2020 to you, my "patient" readers. I wish you much good health and happiness and importantly, peace-of-mind in this new year. OK - yes - it's mid-January, so it...
When Your Provider Says, “It’s All in Your Head”
In a recent conversation with Annette, a young woman who has MS (multiple sclerosis), she described to me the first time she went for a drug infusion which had been...
Preventing a Deadly Outcome from a Visit to the Doctor
Today I'm sharing an experience with you in hopes of preventing something we do but don't think about; something which can be dangerous. At a recent doctor appointment, I found...
When To Trust A Surgical Assembly Line
A surgical assembly line isn't the first thing I think of when I think of an assembly line. The images that pop into my head first include: The I Love...
Why It’s Important To Treat Your Body As Well As You Treat Your Car
My friend Janet had a bad wound on her leg. It had been there for two months, and just looked worse and worse. Finally, it got so bad she doesn't...
Busting the Cure Balloon and Finding a Workable Solution
“The cure cannot come soon enough.” As someone who works in healthcare, and who speaks to patients and their loved ones every day, this is a statement I hear frequently....
Ac-cen-tu-ate – the Negative?
It's time to take a trip with the Way-Back Machine to a song many of us heard when we were kids - because our parents played it on the radio...