Somewhere some clever person must have a system for this. Certainly not all households are floundering, and if so, some software company could make a pile. In the meantime, what do you do?
8.06.2008
keeping track of medical insurance
Somewhere some clever person must have a system for this. Certainly not all households are floundering, and if so, some software company could make a pile. In the meantime, what do you do?
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Here's what I started: I have a spiral notebook that has 3 dividers with pockets, which gives a section for me and each of the 2 kids. (Hubby never goes to the doctor, so he doesn't need a section.) I'm supposed to take this notebook along every time I go to the doctor. Each visit gets one page. I write down the date, and that I remembered to pay the copay. I write down what the doctor says, because I always wonder later. Prescriptions and any other papers they give me go in the pocket on the appropriate divider. We always get the Explanation Of Benefits before we get the bill from the doctor's office. So after I figure out whether the insurance company paid what they were supposed to, I write my conclusions on the same page as the notes from the doctor visit. I record any calls I make, to either the insurance company or the doctor's billing office, on that page as well. Like I said, I started this. Since I abhor forms of all kinds, I tend to let the EOBs and the bills sit around until everything is horribly confused, but this system should work, I think.
Thanks Heidi - it sounds as if this would work.
I have no real plan but I totally understand your frustration. I just match my EOB with the statements from the providers and if the balance due doesnt work out then I am on the phone!!
I kept a spreadsheet with all the amounts including the amounts on the EOB, them amounts on the statements from our doctors, and the amounts I'd submitted for our spending reimbursement account.
It really helped with the dentist as their biller really wasn't organized and couldn't argue with my spreadsheet that I sent them :)
It also helped with budgeting our health care expenses.
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