a third-party indemnitor for health care expenses; that is, in exchange for the payment of a monthly premium, a health care insurance company agrees to indemnify, or be responsible for, its insured's health care costs pursuant to the specific provisions in the health insurance policy ...
As illustrated in two studies published in this issue of Cancer, an individual's sociodemographic characteristics including type of health insurance can decrease access to high-quality and timely cancer care and result in adverse outcomes. Understanding the factors that create cancer health care ...
Here, too, the content of services often differs depending not only on applicants' health and family status, but also on insurers' financial situation.The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at Japan's "centralized yet decentralized" public long-term care system and examine to what ...
How does a long-term care insurance cash policy work? Long-term care insurance cash policies work just like traditional long-term care insurance policies in many ways. When you purchase either type, your premiums and ability to qualify will be affected by your age, health status and other fac...
…the ACA made it much easier for less-healthy Americans to secure and retain insurance by outlawing premium adjustments based on health status. …These changes lowered premiums for people with pre-existing conditions and raised them for everyone else. …the ACA created a new premium and cost-...
Price, age, education status, and income were significantly associated with demand for LTCI. Most pilot cities were found to mainly rely on Urban Employees Basic Medical Insurance funds as the financing source for LTCI. Considering that financing is one of the greatest challenges in the ...
In addition, it’s a product most people need to buy on their own rather than through an employer, meaning there’s no one to subsidize the cost or pick out a good policy for you. Insurance companies are trying to change that. “If I had to summarize a single technique being employed...
The state of California expanded healthcare access to low-income California residents aged 26 to 49, regardless of their immigration status, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new budget into law on Thursday. It is the only state in the U.S. to provide coverage at no cost to undocumented im...
how health changes can impact their long-term care coverage. In particular, pre-existing conditions, especially those related to cognitive decline, can significantly affect eligibility, and insurers may conduct thorough medical underwriting to assess an applicant's health status before issuing a policy....
INSURANCE_PLAN public static final HealthcareFhirResourceType INSURANCE_PLAN The FHIR resource type defined in R4.INVOICE public static final HealthcareFhirResourceType INVOICE The FHIR resource type defined in R4.LIBRARY public static final HealthcareFhirResourceType LIBRARY The FHIR resource type...