Our 7-year-old daughter awoke screaming and could not be comforted or touched. We took her to the emergency room. Now our insurance company is denying the visit, saying that it wasn’t medically necessary for her...
Balance Billing. When a provider bills you for the difference between the provider’s charge and the allowed amount. For example, if the provider’s charge is $100 and the allowed amount is $70, the provider may… Read More
From The Atlantic. In 2016, an estimated 595,690 patients passed away from cancer. That same year, there were over 15.5 million Americans with a history of this terrible illness for whom it was not fatal. This is because the… Read More
Setting up powers of attorney. Meeting with an attorney to create powers of attorney is recommended, particularly in the case of power governing property. However, there are power of attorney for health care forms you...
Superbugs and Hospital-Acquired-Infections. By Trisha Torrey, verywell health. No discussion of patient safety would be complete without covering the growth of superbugs, infectious organisms that make patients sick and may even cause death. They are called superbugs because… Read More
What to Do About Unpaid Medical Bills. Medical bills were the cause of 62 percent of bankruptcies in 2017, according to a study by the American Journal of Medicine. Even more alarming, 80 percent of...
The AHA Patient’s Bill of Rights is only a guideline for hospitals. Americans have few legal patient rights. From the American Hospital Association: A Patient’s Bill of Rights was first adopted by the American Hospital… Read More
How Pharmaceutical Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors. By Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica. Drug companies spend $30 billion annually on marketing. More than $2 billion in payments to doctors, other medical providers and...
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From Maguire Woods. EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) is a law that governs when a patient may be 1) refused treatment in an emergency room; and 2) transferred from one hospital to...