Health Benefits Blog
What Is Fraud in Health Insurance?
While health insurance is marketed as a benefit for employees, often it can be a costly drain on their paychecks. This is largely due to unchecked, fraudulent practices in the health insurance industry and noncompliant medical billing practices. Health insurance fraud...
How to Fix the Broken Healthcare System
While once a good idea in terms of managing available medical providers, Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) often now cause members more issues than help. The traditional way of managing healthcare via a PPO is outdated and riddled with conflicts of interest,...
Is Medical Insurance Without A PPO Network Bad?
When it comes to something as important in life as medical insurance, change can be scary, but that doesn't necessarily mean a change is bad. While network-free insurance is new, this new approach to medical insurance is rapidly gaining traction as a more beneficial...
Why Is It Important for Employees to Ask, “What Will My Benefits Be?”
While roughly 90 percent of the population is covered by some form of medical insurance, many insurance enrollees have coverage that they don't fully understand. Without a full understanding of your benefits, you don't really have a good understanding of what you will...
What Are Prescription Rebates?
Discussion of prescription rebates comes up often in news about the strategies lawmakers propose to reduce the cost of prescription medications in the United States. But what are prescription rebates, do they affect the cost of your medications, and how do they save...
Understanding Health Insurance Terminology
When navigating the health insurance market, you will likely encounter terminology that seems unfamiliar. However, understanding exactly what a health insurance plan includes and what benefits a provider offers is essential to selecting the plan that's best for you....
10 Factors You Need to Consider in Health Insurance Quotes
Selecting the right health insurance for your personal situation is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make. It can be perfectly natural to feel nervous — or even overwhelmed — by all the choices that are out there. Here are 10 factors that you should...