The Florida Association of Health Underwriters will be hosting an Educational Symposium and Expo this May in Daytona Beach. The event will be open to licensed health insurance agents and will include two days of continuing education and guest speakers. Topics will include Senior products and networking, among other things. The Florida Association of Health [...]
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has been a major supporter in Obama’s stimulus package, from start to finish. Being a Republican, he has received more than a little criticism for this. Crist continues to assert that Florida needs and deserves the money, and that it will use the more than $12 billion to stimulate job growth, [...]
In Florida, where there are roughly 110 midwives, their future remains unceratin due to certain misconceptions about the practice circulated by the insurance industry. While low-risk births are equally safe, if not more so, with a midwife as opposed to in a hospital, the prevailing sentiment in recent years is that hospitals are the only safe [...]
For many families who have relied on using credit cards to pay for medical expenses when they had no other alternative are finding that getting credit is becoming more and more difficult and leaving them with little recourse. Medical debt is already one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in this country, and now as [...]
In what Angie Hicks of Florida Health News calls “an attempt to steal the consumers’ right to free speech,” many physicians are enacting a new practice of requiring their patients to sign a form which prevents them from posting negative comments about the practitioner on the internet. Across the nation, roughly 2,000 physicians have joined [...]
South Florida continues to be the hot bed of Medicare fraud as three more doctors were arrested over the past weekend in relation to millions of dollars in false claims involving obsolete HIV therapy. Physicians Carmen Lourdes del Cueto, 65; Roberto Rodriguez, 54; and Carlos Garrido, 69 are being held under accusations of submitting $10 million [...]
Since the Cover Florida Plans were launched at the beginning of the year, BCBS of Florida has signed up over 250 members. Although the provider is just one of the companies selling the products in Florida, this number is sadly low and does not bode well for the overrall success of the program. Becky Cherney, [...]
The problem with having health insurance linked to employment is that as the unemployment rate across the country surges upward, so does the unemployment rate. COBRA is health insurance coverage available to people after they have been let go, but unfortunately it is so expensive that it can consume as much as 80-90% of unemployment [...]
In Brevard County, FL, the local hospital system has been offering gas cards valued at $100 in exchange for bills from rival hospitals. This is being done in an effort to find out what their competitors are charging for the same treatments and procedures. The hospital chain plans to make the information available to consumers [...]
Despite the air of reform and promises of more affordable health insurance, subscribers of Humana’s Medicare Advantage Plans are facing premiums five times higher than last year’s premiums. For elderly citizens on fixed incomes, this means less money for basic necesseties like food and utlities. The uneccessary costs associated with Advantage plans have come under [...]