Category: Insurance
Company covered IUD insertion but not their removal. The state ruled plans with comprehensive prescription coverage must cover contraceptives–and the services associated with their removal.
They seem like a simple idea: create a marketplaces where consumers can comparison shop for health insurance. But how, exactly, will they work?
Washington state received funds earlier this year to set up the exchanges, which will help individuals buy insurance and provide subsidies to low- and middle-income consumers.
Extra Help: Some Medicare beneficiaries could qualify for assistance with their prescription drug costs, and be eligible this year to pay no more than $2.50 for generic drugs and $6.30 for each brand name drug,
Quick: Where do insured Americans spend the most on health care? Miami? Los Angeles? Nope. It’s Anderson, Indiana: average spending $7,231 a year. Lowest? Ogden-Clearfield, Utah: $2,623 a year.
“The presumption is safety net providers are providers of last resort when you are desperate, but that is not what their patients perceive . . . They seem to like these places and do not feel the need to go elsewhere.”
Currently 26 states and the District of Columbia have the authority to veto health insurance rates deemed excessive for at least some types of insurance, generally policies sold to individuals and small businesses.
The percentage of the U.S. health care bill paid for by government will grow from 45% in 2010 to 49% in 2020. In other words, it’s not growing much at all.
If the deficit ceiling impasse were to drag on for more than a few weeks, health care providers could be unable to pay their staffs or even face insolvency.
Affordable Care Act will have little effect on the nation’s rising health spending in the next decade, according to a new report. But law’s supporters say report fails to take law’s cost-cutting measures into account.
Lately you’d think President Obama was threatening to push Granny off the cliff. But most of the outrage assumes — incorrectly — that any cuts would necessarily be aimed directly at Medicare patients. History suggests otherwise.
Anti-abortion groups oppose the decision, arguing that contraception is against the religious beliefs of some Americans, and that some forms of emergency contraception, including Plan B, are akin to early abortion.
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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