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Insurance companies and prescription drugsThe prescription manufacturers set their own prices and they often build a large profit margin to regain cost spent on researching, manufacturing and advertising. The health insurer analyzes each drug on the
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Insurance Companies And Prescription Drugs
Blog Post Date: May 01 2009Insurance companies and prescription drugs
The prescription manufacturers set their own prices and they often build a large profit margin to regain cost spent on researching, manufacturing and advertising. The health insurer analyzes each drug on the market, by looking at their clinical benefits per dollar. The insurer divides all the drugs under categories or tiers based on the cost and use. The tiers can also be categories as generics which offer the same benefits as the name brand but cost less. The second is, preferred drugs which cost little more than the previous one. The tier three medicines are the most expensive because they are cheaper alternatives than the ones found on tier one and two. Tier four has special medicines which could be high cost medication because they are often used to treat complex diseases. If a person purchases medicine from any one of the tiers on a regular basis, he/she will get the medicines by home delivery and the cost is less and convenient.
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What Are Health Savings Accounts
Blog Post Date: May 01 2009What are health savings accounts?
When someone speaks about health savings accounts, questions always arise in our minds about what is meant by health savings accounts. How do they work? Why is it so special? Health savings accounts have two parts in it. The first part deals with the insurance and the second part represents your health savings account. The insurance part is a high deductible health plan and it means it is a catastrophic plan. It doesn’t have copays for doctor visits and drugs. So you can save money on your premium every month and taxes. So the health savings accounts are the best way to insure your health. It is least expensive, risk free and gets more stable premiums.
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What Are Ppo And Hmo
Blog Post Date: May 01 2009What are PPO and HMO?
A PPO is a Preferred Provider Organization and HMO stands for Health Maintenance Organization. To speak about HMO, we can save a lot of money by paying a low premium amount since the insurance company has negotiated discounts on hospitals and doctors in a given area, but options are more limited and should stay within the network to receive coverage. In the interest of efficiency, HMO takes a large decision about the surgical procedure, health care professionals instead of letting people making their own decisions. In PPO, we are provided with more responsibility about health care decisions and we pay more for that. It allows choosing our physician from a larger group of network. Unlike an HMO patient, we can move out of the network but the cost will increase. HMO offers a smaller premium but more restrictions. PPO’s cost a little bit more and encourage you to stay within a network and gives a more option that an HMO.
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Why Is Health Care So Expensive
Blog Post Date: May 01 2009Why is health care so expensive?
Health care is expensive because one of the reasons is that prescription drugs are very costly. Medication is the fastest growing health expense in the country. Since the drug companies need the money for their research and development, about 15 cents of each dollar is spent on health care. The second reason would be defensive medicine, since doctors have to cover themselves from lawsuits. Defensive medicine makes up 10 cents of each dollar spent on health care. Since defensive medicine is expensive, the raw cost of providing patient care includes hospital service, administration and health industry profit. It makes up totally 48 cents on each dollar spent on medical care. So to avoid these, just take better care of your health and stay healthier and live a long life.
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How Does Health Insurance Work
Blog Post Date: May 01 2009How does health insurance work?
The health insurance process is about economy of scale. When you sign up for health insurance, your insurer covers the whole group, rather than individuals, so everyone shares the cost of staying healthy. You join a group of other people to combine your health care purchasing power. The process behind the coverage is, it collects premium from the customer and it uses that amount to pay the medical claims when a customer is need of medical finance. As we mentioned earlier the amount will be shared by all the members in the team. In the sense, the healthy people in the group will pay the cost if some in the same health insurance group is sick or injured, knowing that the same help will be there for them when they are in need of it.
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