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Downcoding a Health Insurance Claim: Is This One More Way for Health Insurance Companies to Squeeze Patients and Hospitals?

Unless you’ve had an overnight stay in a hospital recently, you’ve probably never heard of the health insurance practice of downcoding, but it’s yet one more health insurance matter to be aware of if you have a medical emergency. In downcoding, a health insurance company unilaterally decides after the fact to reduce charges for medical . . . → Read More: Downcoding a Health Insurance Claim: Is This One More Way for Health Insurance Companies to Squeeze Patients and Hospitals?

Healthcare Reform: the Birth Control Question

Three months after the passage of healthcare reform, we’ve started receiving some much more specific questions about healthcare reform as Americans try to absorb how the historic legislation will be impacting their daily lives. And for many women, there is nothing that impacts their daily lives as much as the question of birth control and . . . → Read More: Healthcare Reform: the Birth Control Question