Medicare Goes Radical With Medical Bills Patients Can Actually Understand

Medicare Goes Radical With Medical Bills Patients Can Actually Understand. In an effort to combat fraud, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just launched a new online version of its medical bills designed especially to be read by the people paying the bill. Fonts will be larger, explanations will not only be present, but they’ll be in plain English, and it will even be easier for claims to be filed. “It shouldn’t be a scavenger hunt,” as Erin Pressley, director of creative services at Medicare and Medicaid puts it. We agree, and the effort is admirable, but why did it take repeated crimes and almost a half century for this to occur to them? [Kaiser Health News]