Fight Back

Medical Bills: How to Budget, Shop, Negotiate and Avoid Surprise Medical Bills

May 19, 2022 Healthcare Consumer Rights Foundation
Fight Back
Medical Bills: How to Budget, Shop, Negotiate and Avoid Surprise Medical Bills
Show Notes

In this Fight Back episode, Dr. Ted Mazer joins us to talk about how you can make your medical expenses fit into your budget. We discuss the importance of shopping for medical procedures, ways to avoid surprise billing, understanding how in and out of network physicians and procedures affect your final bill, how to negotiate hospital bills and more.

Dr. Mazer is a former President of the California Medical Association. In 2015, San Diego County Medical Society named him one of the county’s “Top Doctors” in their annual “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey published by San Diego Magazine.