5+ hour, 23+ min ago  (304+ words) America's health care spending is so out of control that the country's economy is becoming dependent on it. The second largest contributor to economic growth was an increase in consumer spending on nondurable goods " which, according to the U.S. Bureau of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (757+ words) Figure: The U.S. patchwork health care arrangement To understand the government shutdown, it's important to delve deeper into the non-group, private health insurance (orange) slice of the health care pie, where 24 million individuals now get their health insurance. For the average…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1017+ words) Please let the anxious folks at the Wall Street Journal know. They've been so worried. Over the past year, older Americans, low-income people who enroll in private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans, and people covered by health insurance purchased from…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (825+ words) When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed " and potentially overturned " by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (580+ words) Medicare Advantage was established during the Bill Clinton administration with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, when Congress approved the program initially known as Medicare+Choice. It was later renamed Medicare Advantage (MA) in 2003. How MA plans differ from traditional Medicare:…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (939+ words) Now, they're suing to ensure that doesn't change. A health care industry giant's Wall Street overlords just admitted that the company's sky-high health insurance coverage denial rates reaped them enormous profits " and to keep the money flowing, they're suing to…...