Uplift: How to communicate with healthcare providers, to avoid crushing medical bills
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington.
She is an internal medicine physician and medical billing expert. She helps patients understand complex medical procedures, communicate effectively with their healthcare providers, and avoid financial devastation from crushing medical bills through her "What Your Doctor Wants You to Know" series.
Crush Medical Debt is a medical financial literacy content producer that helps consumers and employees who are struggling with America's #1 cause of debt and bankruptcy - medical bills. She is an internal medicine physician and medical billing expert. A determined patient advocate, Dr. Virgie practiced more than 20 years in primary care and psychiatric settings and as a health insurance executive. Dr. Virgie now helps patients understand complex medical procedures, communicate effectively with their healthcare providers, and avoid financial devastation from crushing medical bills through her “What Your Doctor Wants You to Know” series.
She’s the author of What Your Doctor Wants You to Know to CRUSH MEDICAL DEBT and the host of the weekly “Crush Medical Debt: Medical Bills Uncovered” show on the VoiceAmerica radio network.
With our weekly radio show and podcast, Crush Medical Debt-Medical Bills Uncovered, on VoiceAmerica.com, listeners learn how to protect themselves from becoming American healthcare cost victims.
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