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Free for All?: Lessons From the RAND Health Insurance Experiment

by Affordable Health Care

From 1971 to 1982, researchers at the RAND Corporation devised an experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge? and what are the consequences for their health? This book presents a comprehensive account of the experiment and its [...]

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Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum (Walras-Pareto

by Affordable Health Care

The health care industry differs from most other industries in that medical pricing is primarily administered by the government and private insurers and in that it uses several types of contracts. Providers may receive a fixed sum for all necessary services within a given period of time, for the necessary services to treat a given [...]

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CliffsNotes Understanding Health Insurance (Cliffs Notes)

by Affordable Health Care

Not all health plans are created equal! To figure out what the best policy is for you and your family, turn to this guide and learn the finer points of the insurance maze. Know your needs and your choices, and you can start saving money now. Tags: saving money, Guide, health plans, Understanding, family

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Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram

by Affordable Health Care

If you are studying for your life and health insurance licensing exam, we have the ultimate study tool for you. Life and Health Insurance License Exam Cram is a great resource to help you learn the concepts, laws, rate calculations and state and federal regulations that will be covered on the exam. You'll also receive [...]

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Medical Insurance Coding Workbook 2007-08

by Affordable Health Care

The Medical Insurance Coding Workbook for Physician Practices builds coding expertise by providing thorough practice, tips, and reinforcement in code selection and linkage. This supplementary workbook offers extensive opportunities for students to practice ICD-9-CM (diagnoses) and CPT/HCPCS (procedures) coding using the standard code reference manuals. Unique coding linkage coverage reviews and practices reporting diagnosis and [...]

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Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big

by Affordable Health Care

Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control. Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions [...]

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Bonus Options in Health Insurance (Developments in Health

by Affordable Health Care

Confronted with the continuing cost expansion in the health care sector, policy makers face a dilemma: limiting moral hazard in medical care requires that consumers participate in the cost, yet copayment is strongly resisted by today's socially insured. Thus, the experiences of three private German health insurers will be of interest to physicians, social scientists, [...]

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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing And

by Affordable Health Care

Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide you with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, you will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical [...]

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Outcomes in Coding Practice: A Roadmap From Provider to Payer

by Affordable Health Care

Intended to demystify the payment of insurance claims, Outcomes in Coding Practice: A Roadmap from Provider to Payer provides insight into coding from the payer perspective. By understanding the rules, laws and contracts HMO, PPOs or Medicare must consider when payment decision are made, you will be able to make the correct coding choices and [...]

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Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured

by Affordable Health Care

America’s current system of health insurance, which relies almost exclusively on employer-sponsored coverage, is in danger of collapse, and this problem is not limited to the poor and working class. An increasing number of middle-class Americans do not have employer-provided insurance and—due to skyrocketing premiums—cannot afford to purchase coverage for themselves. Reinsuring Health, by economist [...]

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The New Health Insurance Solution: How to Get Cheaper, Better

by Affordable Health Care

You no longer need a traditional employer plan to get good, affordable health insurance. The New Health Insurance Solution can help you cut your health insurance costs in half if: You're self-employed, an independent contractor, or your employer doesn't provide health insurance (you can probably get coverage on your own for about $94/month—a fraction of [...]

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The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook

by Affordable Health Care

Little in the current world is simple. Nothing comes in a box for us to add water and stir. There are those, however, who have been successful and who are willing to share their success. The messages in The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook are from leaders, physicians, practitioners, academics, consultants, and researchers who are [...]

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Health Insurance

by Affordable Health Care

This book provides a thorough overview of health insurance in the United States, with an emphasis on private insurance. Topics covered include: The historical development of U.S. health insurance and the theory of demand for insurance, Issues of adverse selection and moral hazard, How managed care affects hospital and physician markets, The large role played [...]

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Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System--and How to Heal

by Affordable Health Care

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm [...]

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ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation: In All 50 States - 4th

by Affordable Health Care

ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation is the most complete and thorough treatise covering the complex subject of ERISA and health insurance subrogation ever published. Unlike most areas of insurance litigation/subrogation, health insurance subrogation requires the subrogation professional to be familiar not only with applicable state law and the many vagaries and nuances of health insurance [...]

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Social Health Insurance Systems in Western Europe (European

by Affordable Health Care

· What are the characteristics that define a Social Health Insurance system? · How is success measured in SHI systems? · How are SHI systems developing in response to external pressures? Using the seven Social Health Insurance countries in western Europe - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland - as well as [...]

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