To Pay Cash or Not to Pay Cash
To pay cash or not to pay cash. That is the question. Imagine this familiar scenario at your doctor’s office check-in desk: “Sir, may I have your insurance card so …
Is It Time to Get a New Doctor? – An Amaze Patient Story
Peter is 46 years old. He is fit, rarely ever gets sick, and has no family history of any significant illness. He has gone to an urgent care twice in …
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What if It’s More Serious Than the Flu? – An Amaze Patient Story
Like a growing number of Americans who get their health insurance through an employer, Jane has a high-deductible individual plan, so she avoids going to the doctor unless it’s absolutely …
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How Do Your Employees Make Healthcare Ends Meet?
It’s not just patients who struggle to figure out the price of healthcare. Employers are struggling, too. Most employers just take it on the chin every year when the annual …
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Healthcare in America: A Mother’s Story
Earlier this year I told you how Broken Healthcare provided the legal services to a number of patients in Fredericksburg, Virginia, ultimately leading to Mary Washington Hospital dropping hundreds of …
Major Surgery or Minor Procedure? – An Amaze Patient Story
The pain in Mike’s right calf started at about a 3 of 10 on the pain scale. For someone in his mid-70s, such minor annoyances were common, and he mostly …
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Do Your Employees Know You’re Self-Insured?
According to the 2020 Annual Report on Self-Insured Group Health Plans, over 57,800 organizations are self-insured. Yet ask the employees at any company and fewer than 1% of them are …
Skipping Out on Care
More and more Americans are skipping out on medical care out of fear of what it will cost them. A shocking Gallup poll paints a dire picture: a third of …
Weapons of Mass Corruption: Perverse Insurance Incentives
Several years ago, a patient named Debra Altman had back surgery that was mostly covered by her husband’s UnitedHealthcare (UHC) insurance policy. A year after surgery, long after the related …
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