When seconds to minutes matter, don’t let your insurance company bully you into avoiding the ER. What BCBS is doing in Texas will only put more money into their investors' pockets and will cost Texans lives. This kind of immoral behavior should be criminal, and it’s a breach of BCBS duty to the lives they insure. We support The Prudent Layperson - it’s what you’d do for you and your loved ones. Here’s what one group is doing to protect Texans’ rights: http://tafec.org/protectpatients/ Texas … [Read more...] about Fighting For Patient Rights
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ASTHMA TRIGGERS
It’s Southeast Texas and we all know that allergies and asthma are real. Many of us suffer from them. Learning to avoid those things that put us at higher risk for asthma attacks can help save lives and improve your quality of life. Asthma is caused by inflammation of the lungs. The muscles in your airway tighten and you suddenly find yourself wheezing, coughing, short of breath, and feeling a tightening of your chest. By consulting with your doctor and learning what your triggers are you … [Read more...] about ASTHMA TRIGGERS
Texas Standard Takes On BCBS of Texas’ New Rules Limiting ER Coverage
WITH BLUE CROSS BILLING CHANGES, SOME PATIENTS COULD BE FOOTING E.R. BILLS IN FULL Texas’ largest healthcare insurer recently said that HMO subscribers may have to pay the whole bill for out-of-network emergency room visits if the health problem isn’t deemed serious enough. Read More @ Texas Standard … [Read more...] about Texas Standard Takes On BCBS of Texas’ New Rules Limiting ER Coverage
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS PUTS PROFITS OVER PATIENTS’ LIVES
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas announced that they will start implementing a new policy to deny patients coverage for their emergency room visit unless THEY deem the condition was an emergency... after the fact. This dangerous policy has already been implemented in 7 other states, but in all cases it violates a patients Prudent Layperson standard for seeking emergency care. This law exists to protect patients from self-diagnosing in an emergency. #StopAnthemBCBS o fight back against this … [Read more...] about BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS PUTS PROFITS OVER PATIENTS’ LIVES
How Underpaid Insurance Claims Affect You
Have you ever wondered why your insurance premiums keep going up while your network shrinks and your insurance company reports BILLION$ in record profits? It's simple, they have perfected the art of UNDERPAYING. We PAY our health insurance premiums… EVERY MONTH — ON TIME — & IN FULL. These rules seemingly don’t apply to health insurance companies, especially when it comes to paying for emergency medical services. Too often, Insurers use their purposely constrained network rules to … [Read more...] about How Underpaid Insurance Claims Affect You
Caring & Sharing – April 2017
In April 2017, our featured charity is the Houston Food Bank. Their vision for the future is to expand service to the community to 100,000,000 nutritious meals by 2018. Every dollar donated to the Houston Food Bank provides the equivalent of three meals for an individual. In their fiscal year 2015-2016, the Houston Food Bank distributed over 79,000,000 nutritious meals! As a member of the nation's largest non-governmental, domestic hunger relief organization - Feeding America - the goal of … [Read more...] about Caring & Sharing – April 2017
