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Privacy and Your Credit Report
Our personal financial information is more easily available and far less secure in the computer age than it was in the days of old-fashioned filing cabinets. "Privacy and Your Credit Report" explains why the information… -
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Questions & Answers About Privacy & Your Credit Report
Privacy abuses are on the increase, including credit fraud and identity theft, a fast-growing crime in which an impostor applies for credit under a victim's name. "Questions and Answers about Privacy and Credit Reports" offers… -
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HMOs
HMOs (health maintenance organizations) are a form of managed care, a system of health care insurance designed to keep medical costs in check by coordinating covered individuals’ medical needs. HMOs provide a full range of… -
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Health plan information
While reading the materials your HMO provides may not be high on your list of entertainment, an hour or two spent reviewing these documents is crucial. You need to understand what your plan covers -… -
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Open enrollment periods
Employers that offer more than one health plan will allow employees to switch their coverage between plans only during one time of the year, typically one month in the fall or early winter. This is… -
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Investigating doctors’ backgrounds
Information on doctors who have been subject to disciplinary actions can be found online for free at the Docfinder site. Docfinder, run by Administrators In Medicine (AIM), culls its data from state government licensing… -
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Generic prescription drugs
The pharmacist probably told you that the drug your doctor requested is not covered by your HMO. This means that if you had wanted that particular drug right away, you would have had to pay… -
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Sick
According to the new book “Sick” by Jonathan Cohn, America’s health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families and are unable… -
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Why veto children’s health care funding?
The single most compelling reason to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is also the simplest: It’s the right thing to do. But the moral argument doesn’t seem to hold much sway with… -
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Privacy training in San Diego
A train-the-trainer even on how to freeze your credit file was held in San Diego for local community-based organizations. -
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Stopping Identity Theft
This new book—available March 6, 2009—outlines 10 steps you can take to protect yourself or your family from ID theft and medical identity theft, the fastest growing crime in America. By reading this book,… -
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Health insurers inaccurately process 20% of medical claims
One in five medical claims is processed inaccurately by commercial health insurers, often leaving physicians shortchanged, the American Medical Association reported Monday in its third annual assessment of insurers. This report card focused solely on… -
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Employers to see 9% jump in 2011 medical costs
Companies that offer employee health insurance expect another steep jump in medical costs next year, and more will ask workers to share a bigger chunk of the expense, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. For… -
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Demystifying emergency room bills
During a snowstorm last winter, my 6-year-old son fell and cut his chin — not outside on the ice, but inside on the tile bathroom floor. My husband walked our son, Charlie, through the knee-high… -
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Comparing the price of medical procedures
In bygone days, when more workers had comprehensive healthcare insurance, the price of medical procedures was not much of an issue. But now, with many people having to make do with high-deductable plans — if… -
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Rules proposed for health care delivery to older Americans
The Obama administration proposed rules Thursday for using the influential Medicare program to spur a controversial form of managed care emerging around the country that nudges doctors and hospitals to save money by coordinating treatment… -
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Veterans benefits
Many veterans who were in uniform during a war, and their spouses, could be eligible for a monthly Aid & Attendance benefit that would help pay the costs of an assisted living community or long… -
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Insurance claim denied? Appeal
Nobody wants to get into a fight with a health insurer, but it may be worth your while. A recent Government Accountability Office report found that more claims problems stemmed from annoying but often straightforward… -
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Health care costs vary widely nearby
Patients pay as much as 683% more for the same medical procedures, such as MRIs or CT scans, in the same town, depending on which doctor they choose, according to a new study by a… -
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Medicare age hike could save billions
A White House offer to increase the age of Medicare eligibility to 67 as a compromise to Republicans during budget talks would save about $125 billion over 10 years, records show, but such a move… -
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Taking on Medicare and Medicaid
Editor’s note: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released a plan in July that he said would achieve $9 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade. Here, we review parts of the proposal. Coburn, a doctor,… -
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Insurers’ rate quote practice unfair
Let’s say your barber is increasing the cost of haircuts. Is it fair for other barbers to require that you disclose how much you were being asked to pay before they say how much they’ll… -
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Healthcare costs rose while insurance coverage fell
U.S. workers whose wages stagnated over the last decade also saw their health insurance degrade, even as medical costs gobbled up a growing share of their income, two new studies show. An estimated 29 million… -
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Young adults gain health insurance
Nearly 1 million more young adults have obtained health insurance since the 2010 health-care law began requiring insurers to let adult children stay on their parents’ plans until age 26, according to government data released… -
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Health insurance costs shifted to workers
Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance continued to escalate this year even as the share of workers getting less generous coverage reached a new high, according to survey data released Tuesday. In 2011, for the first…
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