I'm drowning in my aged parents medical bills. Their bills get sent to Medicare for payment, then to a third party insurance company, then to me for a co-payment.
Mostly I'm trying to make sure that I don't pay anything that isn't represented by a finalized explanation of benefits (EOB), and that I don't pay anything twice. Here's what I'm doing, and I wonder if anyone is doing similar and can weigh in with a better process. Once a month, Medicare produces an EOB, and on some irregular schedule, the third party insurance produces an EOB. Sometimes the provider bills me before the EOBs show up and sometimes after. The only way to know what is a duplicate is by the provider name coupled with the date of service. When by process EOBs, I create incoming accounts payable records. This gives me an easy record of what has come in before. When I receive bills from providers I try to match them up with what exists in gnucash. If I can't, and I can't find an EOB on the various websites, I create an incoming accounts payable record. If I have all the ducks in a row as indicated by the accounts payable record, the "bill," then I can pay the bill. This is a pretty new process for me, and if anybody has any suggestions on how to enhance it, I would be interested in hearing of it. Ed Greenberg _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
