by Advize Admin | Jul 15, 2022 | Healthcare
Will your health plan pay for an abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade? Even before the June 24 ruling, insurance coverage for abortion varied widely. Now the issue is even more complex as states set varying rules — about half are...
by Advize Admin | Jul 15, 2022 | Commentary, Healthcare
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) is a resource we enjoy for providing regulatory support functions, presenting insurance standards and best practices to help support compliant and informed decisions. On July 11th, NAIC...
by Advize Admin | Jun 10, 2022 | Healthcare, Technology
Tina Passione needed health insurance in a hurry in December. The newly retired 63-year-old was relocating to suburban Atlanta with her husband to be closer to grandchildren. Their house in Pittsburgh flew off the market, and they had six weeks to move out 40 years of...
by Advize Admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Healthcare, Technology
Andrea Veltman and son Merlin lost their health coverage after bad information was entered into a computer system shared by Covered California and Medi-Cal. Andrea Veltman’s subsidized Covered California health plan and Merlin’s Medi-Cal coverage were...
by Advize Admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Healthcare
A congressional effort to fix the nation’s deteriorating mail service may come at the expense of an even bigger and more complicated problem: Medicare solvency. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 would help shore up post office finances by ending the...
by Advize Admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Healthcare
Americans keep hearing that it is important to test frequently for covid-19 at home. But just try to find an “at-home” rapid covid test in a store and at a price that makes frequent tests affordable. Testing, as well as mask-wearing, is an important measure if the...
by Advize Admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Healthcare
Some health insurance brokers in the market are enrolling people into ACA (Affordable Care Act) health care plans without their consent, perhaps for the commissions, a move that could put consumers in danger of owing back the subsidies connected with the coverage. The...
by Advize Admin | Oct 15, 2021 | Healthcare
Patients are months away from not having to worry about most surprise medical bills — those extra costs that can amount to hundreds or thousands of dollars when people are unknowingly treated by an out-of-network doctor or hospital. What’s not clear is whether the...
by Advize Admin | Oct 15, 2021 | Healthcare
At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, people often relied on telemedicine for doctor visits. Now, insurers are betting that some patients liked it enough to embrace new types of health coverage that encourages video visits — or outright insists on them. Priority...
by Advize Admin | Sep 24, 2021 | FWA
When I was first hired as an OIG Agent, I was told by numerous people that fraud in the Medicare Advantage (MA) world was difficult to commit, and ever more difficult to prove. To put it into context, it was the mid-1990s, and MA plans were not where they are...
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