Date: 03/31/2010The Ups and Downs of Managing my Own HealthI learned about the importance of diet and health very early in life as my Dad had his first heart...Date: 03/22/2010Going Beyond Insurance ReformThis week's question for the Washington Post Health Care Rx blog was: Last ...
To date, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid. Among the 10 states still holding out are Texas, Florida, and Georgia. …the ACA made it much easier for less-healthy Americans to secure and retain insurance by outlawing premium adjustments based on health status. …...
Health insurance may apply to a limited or comprehensive range ofmedical services and may provide for full or partial payment of the costs of specific services. Benefits may consist of the right to certain medical services or reimbursement to the insured for specified medical costs. Some types of...
Healthy individuals can explore the option of a low-costhealthcare discount plan. But these plans don't count as insurance coverage, which can make it difficult to get health insurance in the future since signing up for one of these plans means that insurance coverage is considered to have be...
When does open enrollment end? Are your dependents up to date? And did you meet that unreasonable deductible yet? That last question is important this time of year, because deductibles reset in January. And if the answer is yes, it's time to schedule some not-so-urgent medical appointments...
these laws include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, violations of which can result in fines up to $1.5 million per year; the Affordable Care Act; and regulations set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). HR also needs to review and enforce employment...
Table 1. Insurance claims. Since a patient’s data are dispersed within these files, we could not use these raw data to predict the health care expenditure of patients. We used the data in these files to create a patient’s representation that we could use for the prediction of an indiv...
Can I Pay My Insurance Premiums with My HSA Funds? In most cases, you cannot pay for premiums with Health Savings Account (HSA) funds. HSAs can be used for most medical expenses, such as doctor’s appointments, prescriptions, or over-the-counter medications, but not your monthly premium....
In Step 2, pregnancy start and end dates were refined. Start dates were calculated by subtracting GA at birth, when available, from delivery date; GA at birth is automatically calculated in the OCHIN EHR when both an EDD and delivery date are available. Otherwise, we used the calculated ...
Federal government subsidies to make healthcare plans more affordable on the insurance marketplace are expected to end on 31 December 2022, making health insurance plans more expensive, possibly resulting in more Americans losing health insurance coverage because they can’t afford it. 此外,美国联邦政...