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Medication and supplement list
The document clinicians most often wish patients had. Print it, fill it in, keep a copy in your wallet.
Healthcare is confusing on purpose. We explain it.
Free, plain-English help with the parts nobody explains: your medical bill, your insurance, your lab report, and the fifteen minutes you get with your doctor.
Guides
Make sense of the paperwork
Bills, insurance, denials and prices, explained step by step. 19 guides, plus fill-in letter templates and a 79-term glossary.
Tools
Keep your own records
57 printable trackers for blood sugar, blood pressure, medications and more, plus calculators and converters. Everything downloads to your device.
Understand your health
What that lab test measures
112 common tests explained in plain English, with the questions worth asking. We explain the test - your clinician explains your result.
Tips
Walk in prepared
25 practical pages on getting more out of an appointment, preparing for a test, and helping someone else manage their care.
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Before your appointment
Turn your lab results into questions
Tick the tests on your report and download a sheet of questions to take with you. Nothing you type is saved or sent.
Got a bill you do not understand?
How to read your EOB
The Explanation of Benefits is not a bill. Here is what each column means and which number actually matters.
How we work
Primary sources only
Every factual claim links to CMS, the IRS, the Department of Labor, HealthCare.gov, or the statute itself - not to another blog.
Dated, not evergreen-forever
Dollar limits and deadlines change every year. Each page shows the date its figures were last verified, so you know what you are reading.
Tools never transmit what you type
Every calculator, tracker, and template runs in your browser. Lab values, weights, account numbers - none of it is sent or stored. The one exception on the site is the optional newsletter box, which sends exactly one thing: the email address you type into it.
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