Carol Carter

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Patient Advocates Check the Fine Print
When it comes to health care, be careful what you pay for. Cindy Holtzman of Medical Refund Service Inc. in Marietta has seen hospital bills that included circumcisions -- on baby girls. Well, that’s what the hospital bill would have had you believe.
She helped a Georgia State University professor sort out dozens of little scraps of paper held together with straight pins that were bills from an illness his wife contracted while the two were in India.
“I had, like, 150 straight pins,” says Holtzman, a patient advocate who specializes in insurance issues. The pieces of paper added up to two ...

