Essays on Health Insurance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule provides consumers with important privacy rights and protections with respect to their health information, including important controls over how their health information is used and disclosed by health plans and health care providers. At the...

Journal Club 1 Integrative Many people in the United States—approximately 10% of the population—are without healthcare insurance. These same people, due to socioeconomic reasons, are the most likely of Americans to experience stress, one of the causes of illness, or at least one of the...

After researching the various coding and billing regulations, I feel that the biggest and most important ones are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Affordable Care Act (ACA). HIPAA has set standards across the board for electronic health transactions. This also involves the...

RSBY ‘countrywide medical insurance Programme’ is a government – run clinical health insurance software for the BPL (under Poverty Line) in India. The scheme goals to provide medical health insurance coverage to the unorganized area people belonging to the BPL category and their own family...

A person’s health is unpredictable; therefore, even if a person thinks they are healthy now, an illness or a freak accident could occur within a very short amount of time. Health insurance is available to the United States populations for those reasons. (Olivero) A staggering...

Abstract Present scenario of health insurance sector in India depicts that the cost of acquiring medical health has been scaled up enormously. Certain segments of the society remain in the state of affliction, whereas rest remains healthy. The root cause analysis of above problem in...

Health Maintenance Organizations work closely with patients to connect them to providers who can provide the care they need. In return the HMO receives a set payment with is arranged with the insurance company. Providers must apply to be in the network. For a provider...

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was enacted in 2010. The law was designed to provide Americans with healthcare options regardless of their previous health status. It also eliminated caps on coverage during the insured’s lifetime, preventing one from getting thrown off of...