Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they’ve been swindled.
In the past, some plans would refuse to pay the routine care of patients in clinical trials, arguing the treatments were experimental and therefore not covered.
Covered services include mammograms and colorectal cancer screening, bone mass measurement and nutritional counseling.
Experts caution that most doctor-rating systems are still rudimentary, and a four-star rating or other high-performance designation may not reliably reflect a doctor’s abilities.
When am I going to be able to start collecting benefits under the law’s new long-term-care program? When will the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap close?
If you go to an ER thats out of your plan’s network, you can end up paying hefty out-of-network charges. Under the new health law that changes, but the new provisions don’t cover all the bases.
The idea of doctors making house calls seems old fashioned. But for frail, elderly people with multiple health problems, home visits makes sense.
Starting this fall, the new health law will require new plans to provide a range of preventive health services. Should that include contraceptives?
The health-care overhaul will greatly improve insurance prospects for part-time workers – but not right away.
Many Democrats say HSAs are a tax shelter for healthy, affluent people who can afford to sock money away and leave it there to grow.
Some insurers treat pregnancy as a preexisting condition, charging pregnant women higher premiums, or refuse to cover childbirth costs.
The new health law could help to small businesses buy insurance, but the help comes with strings and not everyone thinks it will do enough.
“Sixty percent of the plans out there are pure junk,” says Stephen Beckley, a health-care consultant.
If you’re sick–or have ever been sick–and can’t get insurance, the new health law promises fast relief: access to guaranteed coverage starting in July.
Families face a gap in coverage of several months after graduation and before the law’s provision comes into effect Sept. 23rd.
Medicare covers little long-term care. Long-term care insurance, which pays benefits for a stay in a nursing home or assisted living facility as well as for home care, could offer some financial security.
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