Health Care Insurance

California Health Insurance & Medical Billing Essentials: A Just-the-Facts Guide for Medical Billers, Coders, Registrars, and Healthcare Office Administration Professionals Navigate California’s healthcare billing landscape with clarity and confidence. This essential quick-reference companion is designed for medical billers, coders, patient registrars, and healthcare office professionals, providing clear, actionable insights into the complex world of health insurance, billing operations, and patient registration. Whether you're just starting out or are a seasoned expert, this guide offers...

Mastering Life and Health Insurance can open a stable, rewarding career—while helping others protect their future. From fundamental insurance principles like risk, hazard, and underwriting to complex policy types such as term life, whole life, universal life, and disability income coverage—this guide breaks down complicated concepts into easy-to-understand language.

Most CEOs, HR leaders, and others have been led to believe that controlling health benefits costs isn't possible. The CEO's Guide to Restoring the American Dream shows how this just isn't true. It's an inside look into how public and private employers and unions across the U.S. are reducing their spending by 20% or more, while improving care quality and access, by taking control of the purchasing process, aligning economic incentives, and applying simple, practical, and proven approaches. The book opens the door to learning from these top performing benefits purchasers. It's built on the ...

"Conquer the Health Exam: Your Guide to a Career in Health Insurance" is a comprehensive resource designed to prepare aspiring health insurance professionals for their certification exams. This guide covers essential topics such as individual and group health insurance, managed care plans, disability income insurance, and long-term care insurance. It delves into policy provisions, coverage options, and health insurance regulations, providing in-depth explanations to ensure a thorough understanding. Additionally, it addresses accident and health insurance policies, including accident-only ...

The American health insurance system is anything but simple to maneuver. Health plan enrollees become entangled in an intricate and opaque maze of confusion, often resulting in frustration, regret, and deep debt. Health plan and health care technology veteran Marc S. Ryan seeks to demystify the US health care system, helping Americans become wiser consumers and allowing them to navigate the maze with more confidence and certainty. Using his decades of experience, Marc outlines a bipartisan blueprint to transform America’s unique system without upending the employer-based system.

Based on three years of research and more than 300 firsthand interviews with experts, Your Best Health Care Now is your easy-to-follow, real-world guide to making today's health system work for you. You'll learn all the smart moves and timely tips to get better care and save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars - no matter what your concerns may be. Whether you're trying to book a free checkup, negotiate with a surgeon, or worrying about high insurance deductibles and rising premiums, Your Best Health Care Now has the answers you need.

Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects.

In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.

Medicare Essentials: Your Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Medicare with Confidence Are you ready to take control of your healthcare decisions? With Medicare’s complex rules and ever-changing landscape, making the right choices can feel overwhelming. The Medicare Essentials Book is here to simplify the process and empower you to confidently understand your coverage options. What You'll Learn: Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D Demystified: Gain a clear understanding of each Medicare part, including hospital, medical, and prescription drug coverage. Enrollment Periods and Deadlines: Never miss...

Are you wondering what you would be risking if you didn’t get long-term care? Is it really worth it? And if you do decide to get it, what’s the best way to get coverage that makes sense for you? Are you getting older and simply wonder if long-term care insurance is right for you? This audiobook seeks to answer all those questions and explain it in a simple and easy to understand way. It also can help to give you a more comprehensive look at long-term care if another professional has presented it to you.

Healthcare is complex, and occupies a critically important space in American political, social, and financial conversations. There is no other sector poised to be of more consequence and significance than healthcare, especially in light of the recent viral pandemic and the political center-stage accorded to healthcare delivery and access. As a physician and informatician, having worked in healthcare for more than two decades and served as Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer in health insurance and health information technology firms, I have been astounded by the lack of understanding...

Are you feeling lost in the labyrinth of Medicare? You're not alone. But imagine if you had an audiobook to guide you, making the convoluted world of Medicare clear and accessible. David Whitehead's The Ultimate Medicare Guidebook is that lifeline. With unmatched expertise, David simplifies Medicare, turning confusion into clarity.

Shawn Strash, former CEO of 21 hospitals: "Coming out of Covid, Relocalizing Health, provides the hope and roadmap for how communities will recover better and stronger. It's more clear than ever that the hospital structure of the last few decades won't enable our communities to maximize their health and well-being." Katy Talento, former White House Health Policy Advisor: "Relocalizing Health exposes the secret superpower of health care: the best product also saves the most money. I spent most of my career in government, buying into the dreary, doomsday notion that the only way to save ...

Why Read This Book? Whether you're a healthcare professional, insurance industry leader, or technology enthusiast, this ebook offers a comprehensive guide to the future of healthcare payers. It explores the potential of AI and ML to revolutionize the industry & provides actionable insights & real-world examples to showcase the transformative power of these technologies. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are not just buzzwords; they are the key drivers of innovation that promise to revolutionize the insurance industry. This comprehensive ebook explores how these cutting-edge ...

The opioid crisis is not an anomaly. Instead, it's a self-inflicted wound, driven by a catastrophically dysfunctional health care system, leading to what has become the largest public health crisis in 100 years. Fortunately, proven antidotes exist--all created and spearheaded by forward-looking citizen leaders and employers. It's time to scale these solutions nationwide, stop the crisis in its tracks and move us light years closer to solving the larger disaster that is our health care system. As you read this, countless people are leaving clinics and hospitals with over 30-day supplies of ...

Discover the ultimate guide to giving your furry friend the best care possible with The Complete Guide to French Bulldog Care. This comprehensive guide covers everything from breed characteristics and finding the right breeder to nutrition, grooming, and even coping with the loss of your beloved companion. With years of experience in taking care of French Bulldogs, this guide is the ultimate tool for any current or future owner. Chapters cover all aspects of French Bulldog care, starting with crucial information on breed behavior and how to find a reputable breeder. From there, the guide ...

Unlock the secrets of global healthcare with "Healthcare Systems Abroad," a comprehensive guide to understanding the complexities and innovations shaping medical practices worldwide. Dive into a journey that unveils the diverse approaches countries take to manage healthcare coverage and costs, providing a rich tableau of information that is both enlightening and essential. Start with an exploration of how healthcare systems are defined and why they matter universally. Uncover the historical backdrop that has influenced today's healthcare models, emphasizing major global milestones. From ...

How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country - such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"?

Things you need to do now! Learn what decisions are necessary when you or a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or any terminal illness. With the emotional weight of dealing with a terrible, terminal disease, these decisions can seem like too much to deal with. This audiobook helps you begin sorting these problems out and tackling them one by one using numerous checklists with easy-to-follow instructions for exactly what you need to do.

When Andrew Kavchak’s younger son was diagnosed with autism, he expected that Canada’s public health insurance system would cover the cost of treatment. It didn’t. The medical and scientific communities have known since the 1980s that the application of Intensive Behaviour Intervention (IBI) treatment based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is effective and evidence-based treatment for autism. Yet, in the province of Ontario and across the country, such autism treatment programs are most often administered by the departments of social services and not paid for by ...