Posted: 12:41 PM Oct 20, 2009

CRC on WIFR-TV - MUST HAVE QUICKTIME INSTALLED TO VIEW

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Local Company Makes Sure Patients Right Are Protected. 60 percent of the personal bankruptcies across the U.S. are a result of unpaid medical bills.

Studies show insurance companies only pay about 35 cents of every dollar billed by local hospitals and health care providers... and patients get saddled with the rest.
Claims Recovery Company has resolved thousands of unpaid insurance bills totaling millions of dollars across the U.S.
The Rockford based business works with hospitals and providers... on patients behalf...to hold insurers accountable for reimbursements.
CEO Scott Winslow says health insurance companies frequently dispute payments.. and often times don't pay... leaving patients with large unpaid bills. He says many patients have lost everything trying to pay their medical bills.
". We're protecting patients from having to pay these very large hospital bills by working with the hospital to make sure everything the patient is entitled to in their insurance policy that they pay for through their employer everything they are suppose to get all the benefits are actually delivered from the insurance company."

CRC is the only company in the U.S. right now that deals with these types of claims. The company is growing and hopes to hire six new people by the end of the year.

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