Stevie, a high school basketball star, found himself hours from home when during an away game he had sudden and excruciating back pain. It wasn’t the result of any apparent injury during the game. Stevie had suddenly doubled over in pain and couldn’t get up. Stevie was taken by ambulance to the local emergency room. Stevie’s parents were called and rushed across the state to be with him. By the time they arrived, the ER doctors were ready to discharge Stevie with pain medication and instructions to follow up with his own doctor should the pain recur. Over the next several weeks, the bills began to arrive, and by the time it was all done, Stevie’s parents faced over $7500 in bills for his three hour stay in the ER. This uninsured family was upset by the amount of the bills, particularly since the ER doctors never found anything wrong that day. They engaged the advocates of AttackMedicalBills.com to help. After a detailed review of the medical record and the bills, it became clear that there were items on the bill that were not supported by the medical record. In addition, the hospital was charging for some services twice. But the thing that outraged Stevie’s parents the most was that they were billed more than twenty times the price that Medicare or commercial insurance would pay for Stevie’s CT scan. After AttackMedicalBills.com pointed out these issues and negotiated with the hospital and other providers, all bills were settled for under $1000, for a savings for Stevie’s family of more than $6500. Since Stevie’s family selected our “ADJUST” plan where we work on a contingency basis, they paid us based on our success.