Huge differences highlighted in US healthcare prices

Huge differences highlighted in US healthcare prices

When medical tourism providers and destinations compare their treatment medical prices with the USA, they fail to understand the huge price differences that exist within and between states. Castlight Health’s

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A Blow to Health Care Transparency

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow today to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that

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Surprise medical bills: Consumers ‘need help’ from lawmakers now

Joyce Trapp said it was frightening enough that her husband, a law enforcement officer decorated for valor, suffered a brain injury in a motorcycle accident. Then came the unexpected bills.

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Fifty Percent of Millennials Have Delayed Healthcare Treatment Due to Cost …

New consumer healthcare research released today from Xerox (NYSE:XRX) at HIMSS16 (booth #8005) shows Millennials (Gen Y, ages 18 – 34) are the most cost conscious generation when it comes

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Cutting your medical bills via smartphone

What if your next doctor’s visit could happen by smartphone from anywhere in the world? It could happen sooner than you think. It’s called telemedicine, or telehealth: The use of

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Portable Health Insurance: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Do you know what is the most severe fine, penalty or punitive tax imposed under Obamacare? There are a lot of candidates to choose from. Individuals can be fined if

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Health insurance premiums will rise 60% in this decade, feds predict

The feds have new long-term projections on health insurance costs, and they’re not looking pretty. By 2025, the Congressional Budget Office predicts, premiums for job-based health insurance will rise about

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Why won’t Medicare cover dental, hearing or vision expenses?

The failure of Medicare to cover most dental, hearing and vision expenses is perhaps its greatest failing. Other critics might point to the fact that it does not cover long-term

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The Downside of High Deductible Health Insurance

High deductible health insurance plans were supposed to help consumers cut healthcare costs. The idea was that since consumers would have to pay a large chunk of their own money

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How Small Businesses Can Survive The Rising Tide Of Healthcare Costs

Five years after the ACA* became law, the pattern is becoming clear: -Health insurance coverage in the U.S. has increased overall, however, the number of Americans with employer sponsored health

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