Last year health insurance companies reported robust profits while everyone else slumped dreadfully. Eyebrows were raised and practices came under question. How much of an institution founded on partnership with the patient still gives the patient a thought in their meeting rooms? Many insist quite a bit. According to a Gallup poll released last year, [...]
The following story was submitted by a reader: In June, I was rushed to the emergency room with bilateral abdominal pain. I spent twenty-two hours in the ER and there was told I had a malignant mass, gastroenteritis, Crohn’s disease, an ovarian torsion, or most unlikely, appendicitis. Following two inconclusive CAT scans and a sonogram, [...]
The following story was submitted by a reader: My dad had brain surgery this summer. He had to have fat tissue taken from his stomach so they could use it to plug up the area of the incision. The hospital defines the procedure of removing the fat tissue from his stomach as liposuction…well guess what…insurance [...]
A reader posted a comment awhile back about the hospital experience of her mother, who was just diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Briefly what happened: “… the hospital attempted to discharge her. They indicated that she could receive the treatment for aplastic anemia on an outpatient basis. My sister challenged that as being unacceptable based on [...]
The Questions column will appear weekly on myPICCLine.com. You are invited to submit questions here. Q: I recently graduated college and other young people am struggling to find a job. At what point does health insurance from my mother’s employer lapse? What can I do now if it has lapsed? As a full-time college student, [...]
On my days at the clinic it’s no surprise to see a long line of people awaiting a “meeting” with the billing department. Getting sick is expensive and not everybody has great heath insurance, let alone health insurance at all. There are a lot of different groups who have a interest in seeing that those [...]
I never thought I would be sick. Like so many other people, I figured for most of my life I would hardly use my health insuranc; complaining about it occasionally at family gatherings but accepting it as one of those annoying but necessary costs of doing business. On May 1, 2009 the day I qualified [...]
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