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Employee Benefits - Understanding Your Employee Health and Disability Benefits
It is important for you to understand the details of your employee health and disability benefits.
POLL: Rate your knowledge of health/disability insurance plan details.
It's your responsibility to understand the details of your health insurance and disability insurance plans. You should know what is covered long before you need to use the insurance benefit. Take our poll.
Health Insurance Basics
Learn the basics about the most common health insurance options.
10 Key Considerations When Comparing Health Care Plans
Having to choose between multiple health care plans can be a daunting task. Here are 10 key areas to consider when you need to find the best health care plan for your needs.
Vision & Dental Insurance
Find out more about insurance coverage for your dental and vision needs.
Knowing Your Health Plan Exclusions
What is covered on your health plan? What isn't? This can be a very distressing question for many.It is just as important to understand what is not covered as knowing what is covered.
HMO vs. PPO
How an HMO and a PPO differ in covering your healthcare.
Insure Kids Now: Low-Cost or Free Health Coverage
Every state in the nation, has a health insurance program for infants, children and teens.
Checkup On Health Insurance Choices
Today, there are more types of health insurance, and more choices, than ever before, from AHRQ.
Choosing and Using a Health Plan
Today, more than half of all Americans who have health insurance are enrolled in some kind of managed care plan, from AHRQ.
What Does that Mean? Understanding Health Insurance Terms
When searching for a health insurance plan or after one has already signed up, the plan terms, or descriptions of provisions and coverages can be hard to understand. When one is reviewing the terms they often confusingly say, “What does that mean?”
7 Ways To Avoid "Going Naked" On Health Insurance
Do not try to save money by having no health coverage at all, a condition called going naked, from Bankrate.com.
Fact Sheet: How Life Events Impact Health Benefit Needs
There are several important federal laws that affect your benefits under a job-based health plan. When you marry, divorce, adopt, lose a job or retire, what federal laws may protect your rights when events like these occur, from DOL.
Can The Retiree Health Benefits Provided By Your Employer Be Cut?
How secure are health care benefits after retirement? Under what circumstances can a company reduce or terminate health benefits, from DOL.
Fighting Health-Insurance Claim Denials
One of these days, you might have to battle your health insurance company over a denial of coverage, from Bankrate.com
Can Health Insurance Make You Sick?
If your employer offers you a health insurance plan, you may not realize the entire amount of premiums that are contributed per month-until you decide to quit your job to be self-employed, from Stretcher.com
Getting Medical Insurance When You Have Pre-Existing Conditions
Some solutions to this problem, from Stretcher.com
16 Ways To Get Pre-Existing Conditions
If you're buying life, disability, long-term care or health insurance, your insurance company wants to know more about you. What you say and how you say it can make a difference in how your insurance company sees you and what it charges, from Bankrate.com.
Cheaper Than COBRA: Low Cost Medical Insurance?
We are very interested in ideas for alternatives to the COBRA insurance, from Stretcher.com.
How To Pick Consumer-Driven Health Care Coverage
Consumer-driven coverage is a new health insurance offering. These plans generally combine a medical reimbursement account with high-deductible insurance. Here are some issues to consider before making your choice, from Bankrate.com.
Watch With Whom You Associate For Health Insurance
Sign on for insurance through a professional, trade or alumni association and you could land a good, affordable health plan, regardless of your age or medical condition. Or you could be victimized by a scam, from Bankrate.com.
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