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HSA Living™ Insurance Services LLC, partners with MedBillManager

Launches innovative online pilot program to help people with insurance needs better navigate the health care system
Menlo Park, California- change:healthcare and HSA Living™ Insurance Services, LLC, (www.hsa.com) are proud to announce the launch of a new and innovative co-branded program MedBillManager, an online tool for consumers to more effectively manage and evaluate their healthcare expenses.
MedBillManager, [...]

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Paying the Fair Price for Healthcare

Medical Bill Review Services and change:healthcare Formalize Alliance
Nashville, Tennessee – Medical Bill Review Services Inc. announces its partnership with change:healthcare LLC. Both companies will work to bring Medical Bill Review Services’ customers an original co-branded version of MedBillManager.
Both companies share the goal of helping individuals maintain efficient and reasonable healthcare costs. Medical Bill [...]

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What would healthcare drive you to do?

I was having a peaceful Tuesday afternoon, happy that it was finally under 100 degrees for the first time in weeks, when my boss sent me and email titled “Fwd: Google Alert – “medical bills”. Well of course I opened it (it’s from my boss), but I had no clue what I was about to [...]

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Learning to Truly Value America’s Youth

Chris Fleming of Health Affairs Blog has highlighted the debate surrounding State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorization, discontinuities, and enrollment in his blog. Undeniably this is such an important topic. I wrote a research paper this spring on uninsured children and the variations across SCHIP. Unfortunately the discussion is warranted (referencing the first article [...]

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If it Were Only That Simple (Part 2 of 2) – Who’s to blame for America’s healthcare problems?

So who’s to blame for America’s healthcare problems? In part 1 or my 2 part series, I had told you the reasons why I feel that individuals and physicians and health practitioner deserve some of the blame for our systems complications.
Note: www.charlesclarknovels.com made a wonderful comment on part 1, highlighting accountability (if you’re interested go [...]

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If It Were Only That Simple (Part 1 of 2) – Who’s to blame for America’s healthcare problems?

I’m sure you have witnessed a variety of conversations about America’s healthcare crisis, I certainly have. I spent a whole semester senior year studying our disheveled system in Fundamental Issue of Medicine, Health, and Society. I heard presentations from health economists, alternative medicine practitioners and read several informative books on what I assume is [...]

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Who’s Acting as the Patient Advocate?

Since joining the change:healthcare team I told myself that I would attempt to keep myself up to date on what people are talking about in the health care arena. Just yesterday I came across an interesting article Vince Kuraitis had written titled “Disease Management and Health Outcomes” (linked from his blog by special permission). [...]

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