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• Understanding Personal Insurance Health Options

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 144
  It pays to have a thorough understanding about the personal insurance options available for health care insurance because some require out of pocket costs before any type of health care will be provided. Heath care insurance plans such as a HMO charge every member for the contract services they arrange with ...
  8 hours ago

• Most Insurers in Massachusetts Still Posting Profits – One HMO Loses Money

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  As everyone is probably aware, Massachusetts is the only state that has required consumers to have health insurance and has been discussed in depth many times.  Their model could be a partial model for our care in the US, but there are still discrepancies and problems that live in their system too.  One item ...
  10 hours ago

• Health Net of California Expands Salud HMO to Southern California

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  Salud HMO is available in San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties and is the only Mexican Health Plan that is licensed by the State of California.  Additional information can be viewed at the site.    Members can live in either California or Mexico and are seen by SIMNSA providers ...
  4 days ago

• Health Care Services Through Your Individual Health Insurance Plan

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 144
  An individual health insurance cover, simply stated, is an agreement between you and the insurance firm, aimed at protecting you against any financial constraints on account of a medical emergency. The one pertinent question you need to ask yourself is -what are the factors to be analyzed before deciding on an ...
  6 days ago

• Walk There! Guide for Portland Oregon

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 422
  Matthew Hampton of Portland Metros GIS team put me on to his beautiful fitness + pretty maps guide walks for Portland, Oregon at NACIS. Its a collaboration with Kaiser HMO and was awarded best of show at ESRIs 2009 User Conference. Check out the legend and download route maps. Or buy a copy from Powells Books.
  6 days ago

• The Medical Advice That Almost Killed Our Baby

  
  Daddy Forever — Authority: 122
  Here’s the story behind our baby’s seizures and the medical advice that almost killed him. Early Halloween morning, baby threw up and had a fever. When my wife told me, I wasn’t alarmed. As a dad of four kids, I’ve had more than my share of kids with fever. Plus I had the baby all to myself from 10 pm to 1 am ...
  6 days ago

• What’s An HMO: Your Questions Answered

  
  The Eye — Authority: 142
  Q. What does HMO stand for? A. This is actually a variation of the phrase, “HEY MOE. ” Its roots go back to a concept pioneered by Moe of the Three Stooges, who discovered that a patient could be made to forget about the pain in his foot if he was poked hard enough in the eyes. Q. I just joined an HMO. How ...
  1 week ago

• Healthcare

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  NYT Topics Health Care Reform ; HealthReform.gov We have arrived, I think, at a difficult point in human history. For millennia, before this moment in time, we had little knowledge of what to do to improve and sustain the health of human beings. We lived in ignorance. The average longevity of a person was ...
  1 week ago

• Cramer: WellPoint A Defensive Stock

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 638
  “Third leg is very controversial but we don’t shy from controversy on this show. It’s WellPoint, now what is WellPoint, WellPoint is the HMO that reported an absolute monster yesterday quarter. Earning $1.53 per share or $1.78 excluding one time items. 16 cents or 41 cents higher than the street...
  2 weeks ago

• Cramer: WellPoint A Defensive Stock

  
  The Razor's Edge — Authority: 132
  “Third leg is very controversial but we don’t shy from controversy on this show. It’s WellPoint, now what is WellPoint, WellPoint is the HMO that reported an absolute monster yesterday quarter. Earning $1.53 per share or $1.78 excluding one time items.  16 cents or 41 cents higher than the street was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medical costs finally see the light of day, thanks to new Web sites

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 721
  Filed under: Saving Money , Shopping , Technology , Health , Economizer , Insurance-health Advocates for lower cost health care have for some time argued that arming consumers with data about the costs of medical procedures would help drive down prices. Insurers, however, have kept a tight lid on what they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sick Bodies: Health Care and the Body-As-Machine

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 140
  Nothing gets a person thinking deeply about health care faster--it turns out--than being home sick with something that started out looking an awful lot like H1N1. I am newly-insured, and my policy is partialy subsidized by my part-time employer. As a working writer and teaching artist, I am rarely in a position to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Someone Elses Money

  
  Sweetney — Authority: 116
  If you do nothing else today -- and I mean this -- please listen to this episode of This American Life from the other week on the insurance industry and our current national health insurance debacle. Youll be enlightened and entertained in equal measure, I promise you. Also? Bonus reason to...
  2 weeks ago

• Doctor’s Group Issues Letter Warning Patients About Government-Run Health Care Plans

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Editor’s Note: As Congressional leaders — and I use that term loosely — consider measures that will put government in charge of the nation’s health care system, I feel compelled to share the “Letter to Patients” below from the group, Docs 4 Patient Care . Dear Patient: Every physician takes an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doctor’s Group Issues Letter Warning Patients About Government-Run Health Care Plans

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Editor’s Note: As Congressional leaders — and I use that term loosely — consider measures that will put government in charge of the nation’s health care system, I feel compelled to share the “Letter to Patients” below from the group, Docs 4 Patient Care . Dear Patient: Every physician takes an ...
  3 weeks ago

• United HealthCare Rebranding PacifiCare Name – Moving Patients to United Plans

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  It has been 4 years and the process is finally taking place with the rebranding after the purchase of PacifiCare by United.  As this article reads it appears that patients need to re-apply to select a plan from United HealthCare they feel would best suit their needs.  No word on whether or not the costs remain the ...
  3 weeks ago

• PPO Health Insurance Not Making All Consumers Happy

  
  Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 423
  Consumer Reports recently came out with a survey about consumers and their satisfaction with their current health insurance plan.  This is according to the article “Health Plans Get Only So-So Reviews” on the Washington Post’s website. The survey’s findings were based on responses from 37,481 readers who ...
  3 weeks ago

• Massachusetts Update

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  Couple fined : Must pay Massachusetts $1,000 fine because IBM’s health insurance is not generous enough. Premiums double : for former health care speechwriter for Edwards, Obama and Clinton: For the first time in my life, I am without health insurance and it is a terrible feeling… In D.C., I had a policy with a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Miracle Baby: Mother Successfully Battles for Right to Deliver Healthy Baby Despite Terminal Cancer

  
  Hawaii Right to Life — Authority: 134
  Commentary by Georgia Froncek October 16, 2009 Editors note: Georgia Froncek, a veteran pro-life sidewalk counselor from California, has agreed to publish her experiences with a cancer-stricken woman who was nearly coerced by her insurance company into aborting her child in order to obtain treatment. LONG BEACH, ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Physician Bonuses

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Money and Incentive Pools By Brent A. Metfessel; MD, MSSome Managed Care Organizations [MCOs] use medical provider profiles to allocate funds to the top-performing physicians. The MCO may give additional bonuses or preferential allocation of incentive pool funds to providers that perform well on particular ...
  4 weeks ago

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