As the old adage goes, money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you time with the ones you love when you need it most. We all hope to have a long healthy life with plenty of time with family and friends. Sometimes however, life has different plans and […]
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Rejected For Long-Term Care Insurance? 2 Key Questions to Ask
Long-Term Care insurance not only costs big bucks, the approval process for getting it can also resemble an Olympic obstacle course – especially when pre-existing conditions or other situations exist. Insurance companies are running a business, after all, so they apply tight standards to long-term care insurance applications to screen […]
Prior Authorization Cure With A Decision Automation Process
Patients suffer an extreme late in medical prescriptions and procedures, overdue accounts, problems with paperwork is a big challenge. After receiving a prior authorization, nearly 869 million hours are spent per year! It is true that electronic prior authorization has been in effect for more than a decade. For payers […]
Annual Disenrollment and What It Means For You
Even though Open Enrollment just ended, this doesn’t mean you are completely out of time. The Annual Disenrollment Period exists for those whom wish to leave their Medicare Advantage and/or Part D plans. The industry joke is that beneficiaries have until Valentine’s Day to break up with their current plans. […]
Decoding ICD-10-CM for Hospices
The changeover to the new coding concepts of ICD-10 on October 1, 2015 will be a major overhaul for the hospice community, especially due to such a large portion of reimbursement being diagnosis driven. ICD-10-CM for hospice providers is the replacement coding system for the obsolete ICD-9 procedure coding in […]
New Medicare Supplement Competition in Texas
The top dogs of Texas’s Medicare Supplement market are getting a run for their money. Two competitive carriers have entered the stage, and are clawing to the top in most Texas zip codes. Cigna, insured by American Retirement Life Insurance Company, and Manhattan Life have been catching the eyes of […]
Cheap Online Auto Insurance Guide: What Are the Cheapest Vehicles to Insure? How to Find Quotes?
One of the first steps in getting cheap online auto insurance is by comparing quotes and learning about the companies that offer the policies. Don’t make the mistake of overlooking lesser-known, smaller insurers as they can often provide better, more personalized customer service than the larger companies. Just because 2/3s […]
Importance of Medical Coding for Insurance
With health and diseases becoming a major issue these days around the world, it has become A LOT more important to have more and more coders involved in the medical field for insurance. But what is medical coding? A medical coder, clinical coding officer, or diagnostic coder are professionals involved […]