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 Revoke a Health Care Directive
You may have had very specific and very definite ideas when you drafted your living will, medical power of attorney, DNR order and / or advanced health care directive. You may have taken the time to carefully consider all of the content and to make sure that each document was executed according to the procedures required by state law. Then something may have changed. Perhaps you …
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Organ Donor Declarations
On the morning of July 21, 2009 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that there were 102,486 people waiting for organ transplants in the United States. Organ transplants occur when an organ, or part of an organ, is taken from an organ donor, who may be living or deceased, and transplanted into another body. It is an important part of modern medicine that is …
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