3 Smart Ways to Reduce Your Healthcare Costs

3 Smart Ways to Reduce Your Healthcare Costs

Healthcare costs are rising, and consumers are clearly concerned about it. Despite healthcare inflation running at lower levels over the past couple of years than at any point over the

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Could These Drugs Wind Up Bankrupting Medicare?

For senior citizens in the United States there are two constants to look forward to: a Social Security benefit payment and Medicare coverage. These two entitlements are arguably indispensable when

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3 Keys to Shifting How We Pay for Health Care

n 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic. It took him 73 days to complete the 3,716-mile journey. When asked how he managed each day

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How to Manage Increasingly Higher Medical Deductibles

DESPITE recent gains in the number of Americans who have health insurance, many people are still faced with paying for care out of pocket because of high deductibles. A new

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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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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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Avoid Medical Bill Sticker Shock

Before Lisa Beach, an assistant vice president for an Austin, Texas, credit union, had surgery for severe back pain two years ago, she did everything she could think of to

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Physicians Create Start-up to Fight Expensive Generic Drugs

A group of Johns Hopkins trained physicians has started a crowdfunding campaign to create a start-up which produces cheap generic drugs (campaign web site: www.igg.me/at/cheapdrugs). The campaign comes in response

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New Data Show Slow Health Care Cost Growth is Continuing

New data released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation show that premium growth in employer-sponsored coverage remained slow in 2015, extending the recent streak of unusually slow growth. Taken together

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