Posted May, 1 2012 by arianne
Debt collectors! In the hospital! Posing as normal people – like you and me! In case you missed it, the NY Times broke a story last week out of Minnesota about a practice that is becoming more and more common around the country: Hospitals that are embedding debt collectors as employees to try and get patients to […]
Posted April, 27 2012 by arianne
A new report put out by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) looks at national trends in employer-sponsored benefits between 1997 and 2010. Not surprisingly, what they are finding looks pretty darn grim. During that time: The percentage of workers who are offered health insurance benefits by their employers has declined from 70.1% to 67.5%, and the number […]
Posted April, 25 2012 by arianne
Got 5 minutes to kill? Or, maybe you are super busy but need to cleanse the ol’ mental palate? Well, the Kaiser Family Foundation just put out a nifty little quiz to test your knowledge on the uninsured. Why not give it a try? It’s short – 10 questions – but some of them are a little […]
Posted April, 24 2012 by arianne
Did anyone read the Times this morning? There’s an article out by Nina Bernstein about the latest in what seems to be an ever-growing list of insurance company shenanigans. This time, it has to do with provider reimbursement rates for out-of-network care. You see, back in 2009 the state reached a settlement with insurance plans that required them […]