Here's an order from the doctor you may welcome: Don't pay your medical bill right away.

The American Medical Association, the largest association of physicians, estimates that more than 7 percent of bills paid by private health insurers have errors.

The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that tens of billions of dollars are squandered annually on fraudulent medical bills because of "a very small minority of dishonest health care providers."

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