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What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt
Virgie Bright Ellington, MD
Independently Published
www.crushmedicaldebt.com
9798985300123, $29.99, HC, 128pp

https://www.amazon.com/What-Doctor-Wants-Crush-Medical/dp/B09WQ62QW2

Synopsis: The central messiage of "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt: A Health System Insider's 3 Steps to Protect Yourself from America's #1 Cause of Bankruptcy" by Dr. Virgie Ellington is that no matter how much you owe, there's a better way to get rid of your medical debt beyond bankruptcy.

When Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington became a cancer patient, she faced insurmountable medical bills. That's when she took her insider industry knowledge and put it to work. With the publication of "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt", she shares her secrets to help individuals, families, and veterans protect against America's number one cause of bankruptcy -- medical debt.

Filled from cover to cover with practical and step-by-step strategies, this is an instructive guide that provides the tools you need to stop spending money you don't owe and save yourself from becoming a victim of a predatory healthcare system.

You will learn: How to get rid of your medical debt and hospital bills in three simple steps -- and without going bankrupt; Definitions to help you catch common CPT code and medical bill mistakes; How to effectively communicate with your provider to fix mistakes in your bills or coverage, including COVID-19 and pandemic-related costs; What to do when your private insurance company, Medicaid, or Medicare won't cover your medical costs; Debt management tips to negotiate a lower bill and set up an interest-free payment plan regardless of your credit score.

You can get the healthcare you need while taking care of your financial health at the same time. You can fight back against predatory billing practices! You can apply the insider secrets laid out in "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt" to free yourself from a lifetime of bills and save your financial life.

Critique: Simply stated, everyone and anyone impacted by the rising costs of health care should give a careful and deliberate reading of "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt: A Health System Insider's 3 Steps to Protect Yourself from America's #1 Cause of Bankruptcy". Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to Crush Medical Debt" must be considered a timely, essential, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and academic library Financial Medical Management collections. It should be noted that this indispensable and 'real world practical' combination of instruction guide and 'how to' manual for dealing with medical costs and health insurance financing is also available in a paperback edition (979-8985300109, $15.99) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99).

Editorial Note: Virgie Bright Ellington (www.crushmedicaldebt.com) is an internal medicine physician and medical billing expert. A dedicated patient advocate, she earned her degree at the University of Michigan Medical School and trained at the Cambridge Hospital of Harvard Medical School. After practicing more than 20 years in primary care and psychiatric settings and as a health insurance executive, Dr. Virgie helps patients maximize billing accuracy and avoid financial devastation.

19 Rules for Getting Rich and Staying Rich Despite Wall Street
E. Aly
Marshwinds Press Company
www.uniquereads.com
9781734117035, $24.95 Hardcover/$19.95 Paper/$11.99 ebook

https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Getting-Staying-Despite-Street/dp/1734117036

19 Rules for Getting Rich and Staying Rich Despite Wall Street is a wealth acquisition and management guide that should be in any business, economic, or personal financial planner's library. E. Aly makes some surprising admonitions in the course of this analysis - among them the thought that being rich does not translate to saving for retirement and then selling off assets in retirement years; and that there are right and wrong forms of leverage (among other revelations).

These contentions are backed by statistical and financial studies and research that teaches how to build sound investment strategies without sacrificing lifestyle goals, whether present or future. These 19 rules are addressed step-by-step and begin with assessing expectations, definitions of being rich, and approaches to not just building, but maintaining wealth. The latter is a topic too often missed in the drive for the former, but is just as key to becoming and staying rich as the methods for arriving at this point.

As Aly teaches the basics of building an investment portfolio that generates the kind of investment income that translates to wealth, readers receive new ideas about what constitutes that wealth and how it is best managed. Some of the financial insights blend common sense with basic business savvy, while others represent a better definition of and approach to wealth management that incorporates strategies designed to not just generate, but maintain a reliable money stream. The result is a special blend of flexibility, business insights, and goal-driven steps (19, to be specific) designed to foster not just better understanding, but better wealth management strategies.

These are the real keys to defining the concept of "rich" -- and the reason why 19 Rules for Getting Rich and Staying Rich Despite Wall Street proves more logical, accessible, and pragmatic than many "how to get rich" books. It focuses on the building process over the goal of maintaining financial security, while drawing on an investment income that will prove liquid under any condition.

Libraries looking for wealth management books that are filled with strategy backed by real-world experience should consider 19 Rules for Getting Rich and Staying Rich Despite Wall Street a foundation guide to understanding how the rich can get richer -- and maintain that status.

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