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Insurance Companies Bill Harms Consumers

Bill to Bolster Insurance Companies Harms Consumers, Protects Profits

Insurance companies push to delay labeling regs

See that label above? That’s what a health insurance policy looks like — or is supposed to look like. Under the health reform law, insurance companies are required to summarize each benefit plan in a four-page, easy-to-read document (you can see the full thing here ). The Obama administration rolled out a draft format for the summaries this past summer, and they were supposed to roll out this ...

ENT surgeons want insurance firms to reimburse day-care procedures

ENT surgeons want insurance companies to bring day-care procedures under their ambit for reimbursement and not make a hospital's bed strength the criteria for conducting such surgeries. At...

Opinionator: The End of Health Insurance Companies

Accountable care organizations will shift the focus of medicine away from treating sickness and toward keeping patients healthy.

Do patients pay when they leave against medical advice?

(Medical Xpress) -- There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them.