Tag: preventative care

Health insurance for Alzheimer’s Disease heats up

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Health insurance may soon include coverage for early-detection procedures Alzheimer’s Disease can be a devastating diagnoses, made worse by the financial aspects associated by the ailment. Like other serious illnesses, Alzheimer’s can be a very tricky subject in the world of health insurance. While insurers are likely to cover some of the aspects of the ailment, many have shown resistance to covering procedures that could lead to the early detection of the disease, especially if these procedures are not guaranteed to be absolutely accurate. The medical community is beginning to…

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Using wellness benefits to their best advantage in 2012

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Many forms of health coverage, offer benefits for “wellness” and “preventive care”, which can help you to better take advantage of what is available to you in order to achieve greater health. Among the benefits of preventive coverage is that there are no co-payments, deductibles, or co-insurance payments that must be made by the policyholder, as is the case when the condition is already diagnosed and treatment must be covered. This type of benefit is seen in insurance plans either because they are required by state or federal regulations, or…

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Patients look to paramedics to help with growing healthcare needs

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Groups of paramedics in a number of states are making an effort to assist with the gap in primary healthcare by providing some patients with house calls; an initiative that the federal healthcare law is hoping will help to address the primary healthcare shortages and to reduce the emergency room and doctors’ office visits that are much more costly. Examples of the types of services performed by these paramedics are patient prescription checks, electrocardiograms, drawing blood, changing dressings, and making other observations that would otherwise require a trip to visit…

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