Reply #24: Get a notebook with

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pockets. When you visit the doctors or get a test write where, when, who and the date on one page. Staple any paperwork given to you that day on the same page. Staple any insurance papers and bills to it as they come in. Write down what you paid and when on the same page. It does help keep everything together and gives you all you need to argue when they over charge. I know from friends that work in billing departments of hospital they double bill and send late notices on purpose (don't pick up mail but twice a month). They do it because at least 50 percent of people will just pay the bill they get and never check.
The same billing department person told me the notebook thing when my SO had cancer. She had to do the same to keep tract when her SO had cancer and we both caught a lot of over/double and even triple charges. By the time my SO was in remission we had 4 notebooks that started out an inch thick and ended up about 6 inches plus thick.