Barb Teron, a book buyer in Brook Park, Ohio, plans to delay her retirement because she is worried about Humira’s cost. Ms. Teron, who takes Humira for Crohn’s disease and colitis, has never had to pay more than $5 for a refill of the drug because her employer’s insurance plan picks up most of the tab. The cost, according to a pharmacy app on Ms. Teron’s phone, was $88,766 in the past year.
Continue reading How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System
By Justin Nutt
A study in the U.S.A found that the most productive age in human life is between 60-70 years of age.
Continue reading Amazing Statistics Gives Hope To Aging Insurance Brokers
Hospitals are now required by federal law to publish the prices of mammograms, CT scans and hundreds of other procedures.
Continue reading Virginia hospitals have to publish their prices. Would lawsuits compel them to obey?
Medicare pays through the nose for services rendered by frugal doctor……….
Continue reading Nosy Doctor Billed Medicare Over $46,000,000“Daddy, who do you think you are, a doctor or an insurance company? Since insurance companies have always paid you and not your patients, doesn’t that mean you’re an agent of the insurance company?”
“Not any more son. Screw insurance companies! I work for my patients now” Dr. Doogood chortles.
Continue reading Proposed Legislation Says DPC Doctors Are Not Insurance Companies
Cash Pay Centric Health Plans are becoming a growing market trend, catching the attention of plan sponsors and government officials. The strategy is based on common sense, reason and logic applied to health care, something long missing from American health care financing.
Continue reading Cash Pay Health Plans Catch Lawmakers Attention