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Pre-Existing Conditions And Can’t Afford COBRA – How I Finally Got Health Insurance

This is a story about health insurance. Actually, it’s a real life account of the difficult time that my wife and I had trying to get health insurance for our family. A few months ago, we found ourselves needing health insurance. After my employer filled for Bankruptcy, I decided to become self-employed. The health insurance that I had at the time (through my employer) only lasted through the end of that last month and then I was presented with the option of either letting our policy lapse, or going on COBRA. Problem was, the COBRA premiums were about 3 times more expensive than the original insurance payments. We were basically forced into having our policy lapse because we couldn’t afford the COBRA payments. Continue reading

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance

These days doctor payments are as elusive as a pot of gold owing to miscellaneous causes.Fundamentally you could be the all important health care professional performing a major part in transforming medical records into regular numerical codes utilized to charge third-party payers or individual patients.In order to receive medical coding certification you will have to spend up to a year learning a program that is certified by the Academy of Professional Coders or the American Health Information Management Association – depending on whether you wish to be a professional coder or a coding specialist. Continue reading

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Exercising Michigan Health Insurance Bill of Rights

Mike Novelli, licensed insurance agent asserts that exercising ones patient’s right by comparing quotes is in every consumer’s best interest. In the state of Michigan, almost one in four citizens have health insurance coverage from a health maintenance organization (HMO). Although Blue Cross Blue Shield is considered the state’s primary provider, Michiganites often neglect to shop around to compare the terms with other Michigan health insurance plans. Continue reading

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