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Balance Billing - What Should You Pay?
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What charges are you supposed to pay if you have a PPO, POS. or an HMO type of insurance plan? Deductibles and copays, right? If you receive a bill from a non participating provider, you may be asked to pay more than your fair share of the bill. In some situations you may not even know you were receiving services from a non participating provider, or even had a chance to choose a provider, which is often the case when the doctor or hospital you did choose, uses the...
Read Full Post »Nonprofit Hospitals Need to Earn Their Exemptions
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If nonprofit hospitals spend far less money on providing charity care for the poor and uninsured than the value of their federal, state and local tax exemptions, do they deserve those exemptions? What about if they turn away indigent patients or hound them with aggressive collection practices?
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Read Full Post »Forget Who Pays Medical Bills, It's Who Sets the Cost
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Doctors and the fee-for-service system are at the center of the health care debate. This article defines how insurance was created in 1929. A very simple concept that has been controversial since inception. Well worth reading this from the NY Times.
Inaccessible healthcare
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As if access to healthcare wasn't already overwhelming and increasingly limited, new tactics will be utilized by hospitals beforeyou even walk through the door. Why bother obtaining and paying for a high deductible policy which you can't afford, only to discover that healthcare is still out of your reach?
Access to healthcare will be left to those who are still employed and who also work for larg...
Read Full Post »More lawsuits against giant insurance companies - who's the loser?
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The American Medical Association is among several medical societies that have filed a class action lawsuit against WellPoint, Inc., the largest health insurer in the United States. The lawsuit, filed earlier this week in Los Angeles federal court, alleges that WellPoint colluded with others to underpay physicians for out-of-network medical services, resulting in patients paying an excessive portion of the medical bill.
The AMA filed similar class action lawsuits...
Read Full Post »Balance Billing UPDATE! WE CAN HELP!!!
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The law is on your side!! Prohibitions on balance billing that have been enacted in
many states are very supportive of consumers and will stop medical debt
collectors.
TeamGail can help you!!!
Health Claim - Balance Billing Prohibited:Read Full Post »
