SHAWNEE, Kan., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- With 27 years of experience in myriad aspects of the healthcare industry, Barbara Gail Kimberlin-Murphy reveals the behind-the-scenes knowledge she's cultivated in her new nonfiction guidebook, "Secrets Revealed By A Medical Collector, The Patient's Guide to Avoiding Bankruptcy" (published by AuthorHouse).
Kimberlin-Murphy informs and empowers the American medical patient and medical community with the top 10 secrets that patients need to know to avoid bankruptcy. As a personal witness to the pitfalls and traps of the healthcare industry, Kimberlin-Murphy provides invaluable advice and guidance for patients experiencing additional financial hardships on top of physical stress. "For every bankruptcy filed by a fearful patient, another newly available medical idea has either been postponed, or permanently put on hold, until our medical providers have the finances in place," Kimberlin-Murphy writes. "Our medical providers are primarily our physicians and hospitals. Our national healthcare system is suffering because of the fear our patients experience."
"Secrets Revealed By A Medical Collector, The Patient's Guide to Avoiding Bankruptcy" is written in layman's terms for patients, physicians and even Medicaid and Medicare programs. Kimberlin-Murphy explains what is happening behind closed doors and who benefits from the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). One piece of advice about liens on patients' houses Kimberlin-Murphy offers is:
Some Corporate America-based hospitals will put a lien on a patient's
home when the individual leaves one of its hospitals. It will remain
there until the hospital is paid in full.
This is, by far, the most surprising secret of all to patients.
Absolutely no one from a Corporate America-based hospit
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