Does Your Doctor Charge Too Much?: A Consumer's Guide to Physician Fees

Does Your Doctor Charge Too Much? is the first book of its kind to answer these and many more questions about medical fees. You can look up the actual fees for thousands of medical, surgical and diagnostic treatments, and can use the information to "shop" for elective procedures like obstetric care, or to challenge high fees by doctors or low payments by insurance companies.

The book also explains how to read and interpret the "secret" codes and language of doctors’ bills and insurance claim forms. And you’ll learn about the often hostile relationship between healthcare providers (doctors, hospitals, home health agencies, etc.) and healthcare payers (government, private insurance companies, HMO’s, etc.) and how this conflict costs the public millions of dollars a year in lost insurance benefits.