What are Medicare Anti-Mark Up Rules?
Medicare’s new Anti-Mark up Rules went into effect on January 1, 2009.The Medicare Anti-Mark Up Rules are meant to prevent the mark up (price increase) of certain diagnostic tests that are …
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How to Change a Life Insurance Beneficiary
There are many factors that can lead to a person wanting to change his or her life insurance beneficiary. Marriage, divorce or the death of the beneficiary are just three common reasons that people seek to change their life insurance beneficiaries. Most of the time changing a life insurance beneficiary is a simple, yet formal, procedure that can easily be accomplished as long as the …
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Your Right to Medical Privacy: HIPAA
In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA. The law has many different elements including the protection of health insurance when an employee loses her job and national standards for certain health care transactions. However, one of the best known sections of the law is the one that addresses a patient’s …
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