Posts Tagged ‘ Health Insurance ’

COBRA Health Insurance Extensions Stimulus Help

April 10, 2009

Are You Confused About the US Stimulus Package and COBRA Extensions? As you probably know, COBRA is a federal law that forces some employers to keep terminated empoloyees in their group health insurance for several months. However, the employers do not have to keep paying the portion of the premium they pay for active...
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What are Reasonable and Customary Charges?

March 20, 2009

So What Does Reasonable and Customary Mean? Many health insurance policies specify that they will pay claims based upon something called reasonable and customary charges. This means that insurers claim they will allow a normal charge for a specific service, by a specific type of medical provider, taking the geographic area into account. So...
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US Stimulus Plan To Help Some Unemployed With Health Insurance

January 28, 2009

COBRA benefits help some unemployed people keep their group health insurance. As we have discussed, this extension usually comes at a high price which shocks many terminated employees. Since the employer does not have to carry any portion of the premium any longer, the ex-employee will have to pay the whole amount. This is...
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Medicare Health Insurance Plans Explained

January 13, 2009

Still Don’t Understand Medicare Health Insurance? It is sort of ironic, that now that we get older, we have to go back to the Plan A, B, Cs, and Ds of Medicare Health Insurance! In fact, now that we have even more health insurance choices for Medicare beneficiaries, it can be even tougher to...
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