You might have your health plan but do not know how to use it to your advantage. Most people do not fully understand how their benefits work. This confusion leads some people to lose money, pay more for care, or get their claims denied. Here are some ways to make your health plan work to […]

Most employees get their health insurance through the companies they work for. This is a great way to get affordable health insurance. They can also wait for the annual “open enrollment” and add a family member or a dependent to their plan. However, if they get married or have a child, they can add them […]

States with laws that allow children to remain under their parents’ health insurance until age 26 have improved health care access compared to those without such laws, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found. This finding shows the potential positive effect of a major provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of […]

You might think that health insurance is expensive and pointless especially if you are young, short on cash, and healthy. The reality is everybody needs health insurance. A broken arm in a basketball game, a bicycle accident, a simple bronchitis that escalates into pneumonia – you are potentially setting up yourself for financial bankruptcy. Who […]

Anyone who has a family member or a close friend suffering with liver cancer understand all that the individual must tolerate to find answers. Along with the traditional medical treatments is a new treatment called genomic. This is a new method for identifying the cancer causing agents that are causing the liver cancer to grow […]

A very interesting, yet seldom discussed disease that is costing the health profession millions and millions of dollars is really a dental problem. We are discussing periodontal disease and the correlation to diabetes and heart disease. The treatment and in many cases, the cure is very simple and relatively inexpensive, but it is also often […]

There are many local community hospitals today that are closing their doors or reducing the health staff that keeps them operational. Many of the community hospitals are the medical health physician-owned hospitals. They are considering closing because they will no longer have the ability to expand and grow to accommodate the growing community where they […]

All employers across the country from small businesses to large corporations are continuing to brace and hold their breath to see how the coming years develop now that the health reform bill is taking hold. They are in agreement that this is not going to be a prosperous or profitable year, but each one is […]

Many employers of large corporations have utilized the last two months of each year to offer open enrollment period insurance to their full time employees and some to their part time employees. The stress levels and anger, on the part of the employees is heard loud and clear because of the confusion of what is an […]

Verifying employment status for the freelance and self-employed entrepreneur can be very difficult. This is a topic that is seldom discussed out in the open, but becomes a major issue when the freelance and self-employed entrepreneur wants to apply for a business loan and for self-employed health insurance. If it feels like you are jumping […]