In most cases, what you see on your medical bill is not what you have to pay.

We did some research, talked to some experts, and we're going to tell you why and how to pay less on your medical bills.

Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich of your life.

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Welcome to Frugal Friends. My name is Jen. My name is Jill. And today we are talking about how to get as much as half off the medical bills you have received in the mail.

This is a topic we get asked about all the time.

And even though we've had medical bills before, we don't see a lot of medical bills.

When I had my second son, I got an email with $70-ish thousand dollars right in the body of the email.

They didn't even tell me, go to your portal to get your bill.

They just sent me the number via email.

And it was shocking.

And I am not the only one who has experienced this. One hospital tried to

charge me $32,000, essentially for a room rental, because that wasn't even including the surgeon

costs or the anesthesia costs. And these are all the things that I wish that I would have known

before facing some of those medical bills.

Yeah. So we have talked to several experts in the past, and they have all kind of laid out

this kind of four-step process to lowering your medical bills. They're all experts in different

ways and areas along that journey.

So we're going to go through those four steps with you and cut to them when they have insight

that really shed some light on this experience. So when you get a medical bill in the mail or

in your inbox, the first thing you're going to do is

ask for an itemized bill and look for errors. And I asked Jared from Dollar for who you'll hear

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