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Health Insurance Costs

Hospital, outpatient prices for privately insured vary widely

A new analysis of prices private insurers pay for healthcare services may fuel the already mounting consumer demand for transparency from payers and providers. Prices for hospital care and outpatient

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Short-term health insurance

Outside of the individual market’s annual open enrollment period (November 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016 for 2016 policies – but the dates could be different for 2017) a short-term

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Insurance Loopholes & Master Pricing: How Surprise Medical Bills Knock consumers down

Most of us know which local hospitals and doctors are covered by our insurance providers, but even when we make sure that we only see an in-network physician or surgeon,

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Twitter chatter predicts health insurance marketplace enrollment, study shows

While children typically get flu once in two years, adults who are at least 30 years old catch flu only about twice in a decade, suggesting that adults who felt

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Health Insurance and Your Taxes: What to Know

Filing taxes is going to be different this year for many of us. For the first time, Americans are required to pay a tax penalty if they didn’t have health

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The rising costs of health care premiums and drugs

In the Sunday Inquirer from February 1, Robert Calandra wrote about a Germantown couple, the Clarks, and their problems getting affordable health insurance. For 2014, with household income of $33,000,

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How to Pick a Health Plan That’s Right For You

HMO, PPO, EPO? The alphabet soup of insurance plans may leave you dazed and confused. Here’s how to make sense of your choices and get the coverage you need. What’s

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Medical tourism gains popularity with health insurers

Cost challenges under healthcare reform have caused major U.S. health insurers to jump onto the medical tourism trend. Some uninsured or underinsured Americans already travel overseas for bargain priced elective

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What you should know about the health insurance marketplace

Americans who are uninsured or do not purchase insurance through an employer will get their first opportunity Tuesday to see what plans will be available to them through Obamacare. Tuesday.

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