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How to Stop Ice Dams at Your Home
See how you can prevent ice dams from happening at your home. Avoid the ice dam nightmare and the damage that comes along with it.
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How Healthcare Research Can Help Providers Give a Better Experience to Caregivers
Being a caregiver to loved ones isn't easy. Healthcare market research can help providers understand caregivers and offer a better experience for them.
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You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make The Old Adage Literally True
Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook.
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ATV accident took a radiologist's left arm. Then came a $56,603 ambulance bill
It was the first — and only — time Dr. Naveed Khan, a 35-year-old Southlake radiologist, ever rode in an all-terrain vehicle.
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Getting health insurance through work now costs nearly $20,000
Employers and workers together are spending close to $20,000 for family health insurance coverage in 2018, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation report. Although premiums have increased fairly modestly in recent years, the growth has far outpaced workers' raises over time. The average family premium has increased 55% since 2008, twice as fast as workers' wages and three times as fast as inflation, Kaiser's Employer Health Benefits Survey found.
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Major life insurer says it will require customers to wear health trackers
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday. The move by the 156-year-old insurer, owned by Canada's Manulife Financial Corp, marks a major shift for the company, which unveiled its first interactive life insurance policy in 2015. It is now applying the model across all of its life coverage.
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When insurance wouldn't pay, parents funded cancer patient's $95,000 lifesaving treatment
Kate Weissman sits at the edge of the patient table. Her oncologist goes over her medical records and says her most recent scans show no recurrence of cervical cancer. "I am remarkably happy," says Dr. Whitfield Growdon, a surgical oncologist who specializes in personalized care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Weissman perks up and claps her hands. "Two years," she says. "We made it two years." "It's amazing," Growdon responds. "It really is."
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Alberta man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance
He wanted a brand new car — a Chevrolet Cruze with all the trimmings. As a man in his early 20s, he knew his insurance costs would be high. So he became a woman, though only on paper.
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates
Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.
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Life insurance companies no longer treating marijuana use as a high risk like tobacco
Some of Canada's biggest insurance companies have updated their policies on marijuana use, and the changes are having a major impact on regular users' premiums. With recreational use of the drug set to become legal on Oct. 17, marijuana is moving toward mainstream acceptance, and the slow-moving and stodgy world of life insurance is no exception.
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Allianz — Giant Insurer — Stops Insuring Coal Plants & Mines
One of the world’s largest insurers, Allianz, has announced it will immediately cease insuring single coal-fired power plants and coal mines and further plans to phase out all coal risks by
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Insurance coverage 101. How much is too much?
Saving and budgeting your income isn't the only concern when trying to get ahead. Insurance is a common concern and can account for a lot of monthly payments. Get a few tips that will help you save money when you are getting your insurance.
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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Create Healthcare Company to Cut Costs
Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co will form a healthcare company aimed at cutting costs for their U.S. employees, they said on Tuesday, sending shares in the broad healthcare sector sharply lower.
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An ER visit, a $12,000 bill — and a health insurer that wouldn’t pay
A new insurance policy expects patients to diagnose themselves.
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Proposed merger would put the largest US health care provider under the direction of the Catholic Church
The news that two major Catholic health care systems, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health, are considering a merger that would create a nearly 200-hospital behemoth spanning 27 states raises questions about the expanded imposition of Catholic ethical norms on the health care system in the coming year. This article is reprinted with permission from Religion Dispatches. Follow RD on Facebook or Twitter for daily updates. In addition to the Ascension-Providence merger, two other large Catholic…
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More Worries Over TrumpCare Lower-Cost Plans - Relay Vibes
New policy from the Trump administration that would permit less expensive and less regulated health plans into the personal insurance market..Trumpcare
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A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.
An epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of health care dollars a year. Patients and taxpayers are paying for it.
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Medicaid Covers All That? It’s The Backstop Of America’s Ailing Health System
Those relying on the federal government’s safety net are grandmothers, the kid next door, your supermarket cashier — maybe even you.
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The Trump Effect | Healthcare
Tracking the impact of the president’s policies
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Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill
The health insurance industry, which has been cautious about previous bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act, came out sharply against the latest version.
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