How to Scan Your First Bill with Healthvocate

Got a medical bill you suspect might have errors — or that you just want to understand? Here's how to scan your first bill with Healthvocate, step by step.

What the bill scan does

The Medical Bill Auditor reads your bill (and your EOB, if you have it) and flags potential problems — duplicate charges, charges that look like upcoding, and out-of-network or surprise-billing issues — and it can help you draft a dispute for anything worth challenging. Comparing your bill against your EOB is a big part of how errors surface.

How to do it

• Start with the essentials. You begin with a few profile basics, and you can fill in more as you go — no need to have everything ready up front.
• Upload your bill — and your EOB. Provide your itemized bill, and your EOB if you have one. The itemized detail is what makes a real check possible; the EOB is what you compare it against.
• Let it analyze. The tool reviews the bill and flags potential issues for you to look at.
• Review what it found. Look over the flagged items. Healthvocate surfaces structured findings for you to review — you're the one who decides what matters.
• Take the next step, on your terms. If there are issues worth disputing, you can move toward a drafted dispute — which, like everything in Healthvocate, you review and sign before anything is sent.

A couple of things to know

• The preview, then the full result. As a new user, you'll first see a preview of what the scan found — a signal of what's there. You unlock the full detail with a plan or a single credit.
• You stay in control. Nothing is sent on your behalf without your review and signature.

The takeaway

Scanning your first bill is straightforward: start with a few basics, upload the bill (and your EOB), let the auditor flag potential issues, and review what it found — with you in control of any next step. It's the fastest way to find out whether a bill is worth disputing.

This isn't medical or legal advice — Healthvocate helps you check and understand your bill, and you review and decide what to do.