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WBUR's Martha Bebinger
More from WBUR’s Martha Bebinger (Yes, it’s a Martha morning!): On our new Healthcare Savvy site, where users can share and compare their health costs, she reminds us here that under national health reform, a lot of preventive care is now supposed to be free. That is, free of co-pays.
But like everything in health reform, it’s complicated, practices vary and there are exceptions. So she’s done the legwork of getting the lists from the three major Massachusetts health insurers of their preventive services that should now be free of co-pays. See her post here.
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Mass. Health Cost Watchdog Says Partners Merger Raises Red Flags
Looks like the health-cost-control rubber is just beginning to hit the road. This just in from the Health Policy Commission, the independent agency created under the 2012 Massachusetts law aimed at containing health costs: HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION INITIATES FIRST COST … Read More
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The Mysteries Of Medical Billing Codes Revealed
Do yourself a favor and read this helpful post on Healthcare Savvy about decoding medical billing codes written by Susan Mathisen. Here’s a chunk: …medical coding is a locked answer booklet, oftentimes only decipherable by health care professionals and those … Read More
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Actuaries: ObamaCare Will Hike Claims Cost 32 Percent (But Not In Mass.)
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She's Gotta Have It: 8 'No-Cost' Women's Health Services Now Available
Liz Pugh, 23, is a recent college graduate with a job at a nonprofit AIDS advocacy group and financial independence for the first time in her life. Every month she shells out $15 or so of her modest salary for … Read More
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