You might have your health insurance 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 […]

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 parent’s health insurance until age 26 have improved healthcare 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 2010 […]

You might think that health insurance coverage 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. […]

Anyone who has a family member or a close friend suffering from liver cancer understands 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 liver cancer to grow and spread. […]

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 […]

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

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 agree that this is not going to be a prosperous or profitable year, but each one is trying to […]

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 are heard loud and clear because of the confusion of what an affordable health […]

Verifying employment status for the freelance and self-employed entrepreneurs 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 […]