I'm not inclined to pay $50 for software I won't love. The screenshots don't thrill me, and the reviews I've read paint it as an obviously version-1.0 product with a number of gaps and annoying details. Net issue, and I'd chase it if Quicken Medical had good feedback on its functionality, but it doesn't. It seems Quicken Medical doesn't play well with the.
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Quicken doesn't offer a free trial, so I can't offer a firsthand report, but I probably wouldn't download the trial even if there were one, because user reviews suggest it would break my computer. It's expensive - $50 - but if it were fabulous, I'd suck it up, pay, and be happy to find what I was after. I can find precisely one major commercial application: Quicken Medical Expense Manager. So surely some clever programmer has coded up a nifty program tailored for medical bills, right? The wonkiness means regular budgeting software isn't ideal. Medical bills have lots of specialized wonky wrinkles, like the pile of EOB "this is not a bill" statements they bring in their wake that require tracking and reconciling against the actual, separately mailed billing invoices. This time, I do want to data-mine the details and have lots of fancy spreadsheets I can run reports against to find out exactly what we're spending, what our insurance company is spending, etc. But this is bringing out the information-freak in me. I have a good memory for what I've already taken care of, so we're not overpaying.
Our medical paperwork is still not so out of control that a really good tracking system is mandatory - I've been processing things manually, and everything that needs to get paid is getting paid. We've also got a stack of hospital bills - one hospital stay, I've learned, can incur at least a half-dozen separate invoices, which show up sporadically. In past years, we've incurred one or two doctor co-pays annually now we've got a dozen every two months, along with regular prescription costs. I do care about that data mining when it comes to medical bills, now that we have so many. My own personal budgeting approach doesn't demand a Quicken or Microsoft Money I have little enough to track that I can keep it in my head, and I don't care about the detailed data like "how much did I spend on entertainment last month?" that such programs would offer. My bank information and my regular bills (cable, student loan, credit cards, etc) are all available online. I have about six regular bills I pay each month in a batch when I get my mid-month paycheck, and it's easy enough for me to remember to do it. I use PocketMoney on my Palm for day-to-day tracking of money flowing through my checking account. I take a fairly laid-back approach to budget administration in general. Right now, the gaping void vexing me is software for tracking medical expenses. So when I have a problem that seems ideally suited for a software solution, but can't find a good application, I get vexed. The universe of applications is so vast these days, and the barriers to creating new ones so low, that I expect some clever programmer to have solved pretty much any problem I can dream up. I have an entitlement complex about software.