Navigate the complicated world of health care with these resources dedicated to explaining insurance, Medicare, and healthcare reform, and helping you make the best decisions for you and your family.
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Abdominal CT Scan: What’s Diagnosed?
What is a Midwife?
CAT scan patient
PET Scan vs. CT Scan
Young Asian woman video conferencing with laptop to connect with her family doctor, consulting about medicine during self isolation at home in Covid-19 health crisis
Telehealth, What It Is, and Its Pros and Cons
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What Is the Compassionate Allowances Program?
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What Is Medical Underwriting?
Triple Aim
An Overview of the Triple Aim
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The Medicaid Look Back Period Can Delay Nursing Home Care
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Best At-Home Lyme Disease Tests
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Defining Medical Malpractice: How to Take Legal Action
Children Coloring a World Map
What Is a 504 Plan?
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Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
health care self advocacy
How to Be a Better Health Advocate for Yourself
Essential Oils on a Market Stall
What Is the Declaration of Helsinki?
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Secretly Recording Your Doctor’s Appointments
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How Capitation in Healthcare Works
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Pharmacy Benefit Manager
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What Is Healthcare Reimbursement?
Paramedics examining patient on stretcher
How Triage Works in a Hospital
An ambulatory patient and his nurse.
Ambulatory or Walking Status in Health Care
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Understanding Standard of Care for Patients
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Overview of Disease Management
Hospital emergency department
EMTALA: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act
Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus Bacteria
Iatrogenic Events During Medical Treatments
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What Is Upcoding in Medical Billing?
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12 Points in a Patient's Bill of Rights
How To Determine Proper Fit In a Wheelchair
Senior man using walker on sidewalk
The Features of Different Walkers
A man using a rollator.
How a Rollator Differs From a Walker
Woman with a cold looking at digital tablet
The Risks of Using the Internet to Self-Diagnose
Doctor consulting with her patient
Top 5 Reasons to Get a Second Opinion
female doctor looking in microscope
An Overview of Histopathology
Woman looking out window
How to Cope With Grief From Difficult Diagnoses or Medical Errors
Senior man holding ice pack on knee
Acute, Chronic, and Subacute Pain Differences
Although little is known about W-18, it has been implicatated in numerous drug deaths
Difference Between Sepsis and Septicemia
Female patient listening to diagnosis from doctor
5 Ways to Make the Most Informed Health Decisions
A doctor and a patient in a hospital ward.
What 'Indolent' Means in a Medical Diagnosis
Antique pharmacy bottles
Historical Names of Diseases and Conditions
A doctor and a patient.
Steps to Take If Your Doctor Tells You It's All in Your Head
woman filling out forms at doctor's office
Why Healthcare Providers and Hospitals Ask for Your Social Security Number
Male patient and doctor in discussion in exam room
Using Differential Diagnosis to Confirm Your Illness
A doctor looks into a microscope.
How Accurate Are Your Medical Test Results?
Woman reviewing X-Rays with doctor
What to Do if You Receive the Wrong Diagnosis
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Are You Seeing the Right Specialist?
A doctor and a patient
When You Can't Get a Diagnosis
Lab tech looking at sample and recording findings
Understanding Your Medical Test Results
Woman with her arm around a family member
Frustration and Other Common Feelings While Waiting for a Diagnosis
A patient meets with a doctor.
What It Means to Be Asymptomatic
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Are Expired Medications Safe?
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What Are Biosimilars and Are They Safe to Use?
consulting asian doctor online using laptop
What to Know About Telehealth and Biologics
Group of college students taking exam.
The Role of Minority Stress in Health Disparities
Yellow and white pills
Is Medication Adherence Important?
A man sitting and waiting in his hospital bed
The Weekend Effect and Hospitals
Doctor discussing prescription drugs with patient
7 Questions to Ask Before Taking a Prescription
Pills on medicine cabinet shelf.
How to Safely Dispose of Unused Medications
drug manufacturing
What Is an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)?
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How to Take Oral Medications Properly
Little boy getting a cast on his leg
What Is Curative Care?
Doctor checking teenage patients blood pressure with cuff in examination room
How to Avoid Unnecessary Medical Tests