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- 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?
- 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)?
- 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?
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Medical billing and insurance in the news.
- California forbids hospitals and physicians to bill patients for the balance of emergency care not covered by insurers
- When patients use emergency care doctors and hospitals that are not in their insurer's network, these hospitals and physicians are not allowed to bill them for more than what their health plan determines is a reasonable and customary dollar amount. Effective on October 15, 2008, this ban will save consumers money and time and frustration spent in disputing these charges.
- Bailout Includes Better Mental Health Insurance
- More than one-third of Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments, required by a new law, included in the economic bailout bill signed on October 3, 2008.
- United States Presidential Elections 2008 and Healthcare: Barack Obama
- United States Presidential Elections 2008 and Healthcare: John McCain
- Presidential Election 2008 and Healthcare
- Learn more about the solutions for healthcare issues being offered by the candidates for the US Presidency.
- Facing Veto, Democrats Drop Plan for Vote on Child Bill
- It might be better for Congress to vote on the SCHIP legislation next year rather than this year. Democrats say they have shifted course, after concluding that President Bush would not sign their legislation and that they could not override his likely veto. Why would you pass a bill now when, in six months, you could get a better bill covering more uninsured children.
- Cross-border healthcare in European Union
- European Union citizens will be able to shop for medical care around the 27-nation bloc without prior authorization from their insurer, under the new proposal.
- New York Times: S.E.C. Backs Health Care Balloting
- The Securities and Exchange Commission, shifting its position, has told companies they must allow shareholders to vote on a proposal for universal health insurance coverage.
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