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From SmartMedicalConsumer Wiki
- Your rigts against Debt Collectors?
- Unfortunately, a good number of healthcare consumers need to deal with debt collectors. Therefore, it is important to know your rights against debt collectors.
- What's new for 2009 Taxes?
- Mileage rate, COBRA continuation coverage and health coverage tax credit.
- How to search for drug prices?
- Check the prices for the most frequently prescribed medications in Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont.
- Your rights in buying and continuing Individual Health Insurance?
- Buying an Individual Health Insurance can be a nightmare and expensive. Furthermore, if you have a precondition, and if you are not coming out of a Group Insurance, you may be denied by Individual Health Plans.
- Health benefits for same-sex couples
- That even if your employer provides health insurance to your same-sex domestic partner, you may end up paying higher taxes compared to heterosexual spouses? You can avoid this, if your partner meets IRS' definition of dependent.
- You can include fees to Christian Science practitioners as medical expense in your tax return?
- (Cannot help to wonder if IRS accepts Cristian Science treatment as medical care, then why not accept the healing methods of other religions!)
- Extra Help program for Medicare prescription drug plan may reduce your expenses?
- If you are a Medicare beneficiary with limited income and limited resources, you may qualify for Extra Help program, which is estimated to be worth an average of $3,900 per year. Benefits vary by income.
- Walmart's $4 for a 30-day or $10 for a 90-day prescription medication program?
- Walmart offers a prescription-drug program for 90-day supplies of more than 300 generic drugs for only $10.
- Suze Orman recommends Health Saving Accounts
- The personal finance guru says regardless of what reform may be coming down the road, having the ability to save money in a tax-deferred account is never going to lose its value?
- How to choose between different Medicare options?
- Try the compare tools at the Medicare government website.
- Hospital Compare Tool from Medicare
- That Medicare offers a tool called Hospital Compare, which provides information to compare the quality of hospitals, and the average dollar amount Medicare pays for treatment of a given medical condition or surgical procedure?
- Healthcare insurance rescission
- That most states allow insurers to cancel a patient's individual policy if they find an applicant lied or inadvertently omitted medical history information (Healthcare insurance rescission)?
- SCHIP
- That families who earn too much to qualify for Medicare may be eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program?
- Never Events
- That insurers are starting not to pay for services to take care of the health problems caused by the medical errors made by hospitals (Never Events)?
- What's new for 2008 Taxes?
- Mileage rate, diagnotic test, and more.
- Newborns and Mothers Health Protection Act
- That the Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act generally requires plans that offer maternity coverage to pay for at least a 48-hour hospital stay following childbirth (96-hour stay in the case of a cesarean section)?
- Insure Kids Now
- That Insure Kids Now says that every state in the nation has a health insurance program for infants, children and teens?
- Medicare Outside the US
- That Medicare does not pay for care outside the United States?
- Mandated coverage for infertility treatment
- That many states mandate insurance coverage for infertility diagnosis and treatment?
- Financial assistance for cancer patients
- That there are sources of financial assistance for individuals with cancer who do not have health insurance or who need financial assistance to cover health care costs?
- WHCRA
- That the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA) includes protections for individuals who elect breast reconstruction in connection with a mastectomy?
- CancerCare
- That CancerCare is a national nonprofit agency that offers free support, information, financial assistance, and practical help to people with cancer and their loved ones?
