Great opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Essential health benefits and other mandates are what is drive up medical insurance costs. Why not get creative and offer plans that do not cover everything under the sun? If an individual that is young and healthy wants to make an […]
In the age of email we never give this a second thought. Email comes in and we respond. But this could also be taking a good amount of time away from many other tasks we do daily. It also could increase stress across our workday. Something we need more […]
After the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) there has been major consolidation in the industry since 2015.
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Average Medicare households health-related expenses are more than twice as large as non-Medicare households. Is that due to the age of the beneficiary or is there more?
There are discussions on the hill to bring back the Cost Sharing Reductions. Last year they were eliminated which resulted in a spike in premiums just before individual enrollment time.
A recent study suggests that not everyone will join an association health plan. That being said there are estimates that over 3 million people will be leaving the marketplace which will increase premiums even further for those who stay.
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The information provided in this link should be of interest if you are anyone you know is going to be turning 65 and enrolling into Medicare. It is a very different world.
Up-coding and the games that are played on the provider end are a huge issue. This article goes into detail about a suggestion about having a contest to modify the current risk adjustment model that could save the county tens of billions a year in coding gimmicks.
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There were 7,415 heat-related deaths in the United States from 1999 to 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These preventable […]