Insurance

In this Healio video exclusive, Neilanjan Nandi, MD, FACP, discusses the financial burden for patients with inflammatory bowel disease in South Asia, fueled by costly diagnostics and treatments and lack of health insurance.

The American College of Rheumatology is urging CMS to reconsider its current policy of allowing insurers to exclude copay assistance programs from counting toward a patient’s deductible, according to a press release.

In other articles for Orthopedics Today referenced at the end of this article, we explained that permanent life insurance, also called cash value life insurance, has tremendous tax, wealth accumulation, asset protection and estate planning benefits.

In other articles for Residency for Retirement, we have explained that permanent life insurance, also called cash value life insurance, has tremendous tax, wealth accumulation, asset protection and estate planning benefits.

The commercial insurance costs for breast reconstruction vary greatly across the United States, with less competitive markets and large, for-profit and nonsafety-net hospitals seeing the highest rates.

One in five women with high-deductible health insurance plans who had an abnormal screening mammogram would opt out of follow-up testing, according to survey results presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

The increasing number of scooters and other devices on our streets (hoverboards, electric skateboards, you name it) raise various issues in the personal injury world.

Despite state insurance mandates, racial and ethnic disparities in the use of IVF and its clinical outcomes remain, researchers reported.

Like their patients, physicians often become more concerned about long-term care coverage as they age.

The costs of epinephrine autoinjectors have decreased since generic options arrived in 2016, but these costs remained high for some patients due to their insurance plans, according to a study.