Do you keep your EOBs and medical bills?

[Anonymous]

Trying to organize paper work do you keep your EOBs and medical bills for a year? Until they're paid? Or not at all? What is your process?

[Anonymous]

I just got bills from 18 months ago from my dentist. This was the first notice of hundreds of dollars of money owed from work in Spring of 2024. I don’t know the right answer. (He said he had some issue with his billing department).

[Anonymous]

I do, because I have an HSA that I'm letting grow and when I'm finally ready to withdraw from it I need the records.

[Anonymous]

EOBs are electric along w receipts

[Anonymous]

Sent via email ^

No paper

[Anonymous]

I just keep them in a folder all year, note when I paid them and then calculate costs at thr end of the year for tax purposes. And then I keep them with the completed return.

[Anonymous]

Not since I started getting electronic access only but I think now that my health is less routinely perfect I think I should start keeping better records of treatments and medications taken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EOBs are electric along w receipts

Mine come snail mail from bcbs and delta dental

[Anonymous]

They sit in various piles in my living room, kitchen or office room for between 2 days and six years, largely unread, until they are thrown away or otherwise destroyed by the vicissitudes of time.

[Anonymous]

I hold on to the EOB until the bill comes. I then pay the bill and submit to my FSA. Once the FSA funds are received I shred them. If I itemized medical expenses, I’d keep it all but our medical expense aren’t high enough.

[Anonymous]

EOBs: straight to the shredder.

Bills and receipts: straight to Google Drive.

[Anonymous]

Why would you keep a file cabinet full of EOBs? Just download the files. I don’t even have them send me the paper in the mail because I don’t want to deal with disposing of it.