It’s not enough that you’re unwell and need treatment that will take up time and cause you more discomfort: it’s also gonna cost you! That’s the reality many of us live with when it comes to medicine. Finding ways to pay medical bills can be almost stressful enough to cause a whole other health issue. …
Now that there’s a Starbucks on nearly every corner, or one of their competitors, it’s so easy to stop there for a snack when you’re on the run. In the past, this unfortunately meant getting a drink loaded with empty calories (or else a plain coffee) and a muffin that was brimming over with crap …
I recently had a physical. My routine bloodwork claim was completely denied by my health insurance carrier, which made me responsible for paying nearly $400. I called them to find out why, and got a surprising answer: the lab had simply used the wrong diagnostic code – if they would resubmit it with the right …
I decided to do my taxes on Sunday. I thought it would take two hours because even though I have a schedule C and some 1099-Divs, TurboTax has always made it fairly easy in the past. This year, I tried TurboTax online rather than downloading the software. You set up an account, do your return …
Oh, here we go again. Just as I’ve stopped getting calls from the fake company “Account Services“, I started getting robot calls from a collection agency called National Action Financial Services. They’re a real company, but they don’t ask for anyone by name on the messages they leave. It turned out they were after the …