Draft a letter to a billing office for the user to send
draft_bill_letterRead-onlyIdempotent
Draft a letter to a billing office for the user to send. Use for "help me dispute this bill", "write a letter asking for an itemized bill", "can I ask for a discount?" or "how do I apply for charity care?". Returns a letter as plain text with [brackets] for anything not given, tips, and the user's No Surprises Act and Good Faith Estimate rights with official CMS links. It never sends anything.
Input Schema
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | No | Billing code of the charge. With amount, a dispute letter adds Medicare's benchmark (for a hospital charge, the hospital outpatient rate as well as the doctor's part). | |
| date | No | Date of service. | |
| name | No | Patient or account holder name. | |
| type | Yes | itemized (ask for an itemized bill), dispute (ask for a charge to be reviewed), discount (prompt-pay or self-pay discount), or assistance (financial assistance or charity care). | |
| state | No | US state, used for the benchmark in a dispute letter. | |
| amount | No | Amount charged or balance due, in US dollars. | |
| reason | No | A sentence on what the user wants checked, for a dispute letter. | |
| account | No | Account or invoice number on the bill. | |
| insured | No | no if paying without insurance (self-pay), for a discount letter. | |
| service | No | The service in plain words. | |
| setting | No | office or facility (hospital or surgery center), for the benchmark in a dispute letter. ER visits and hospital clinic visits count as facility anyway. | |
| provider | No | Hospital, clinic or provider name. | |
| billed_by | No | Whose bill the charge is on when the service was in a hospital: hospital (the hospital's own facility charge) or doctor (the doctor's or physician group's bill). Leave out if not known: the charge is then compared with both together. |