Children’s HealthWatch Research and Policy Director, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, was recently featured in In Training.

Special Messengers: Physician-Advocates

Do you remember the last time your insurance denied payment for a visit or procedure you had or your gym double charged you for your membership fee? What did you do? Did you sit back and say — “Well, they must know better than me — I’ll just accept their decision.” Or, did you call up and say, “Excuse me, but I believe there has been an error and I’d like you to fix it.” My guess is, you did the latter. What you did was advocate for yourself.

Click here to read the article.