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Although I agree with the article - charging $5 is not going to address fraud. My link A U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that as many as one in six people receiving free cell phones did not meet income or other need-based requirements to receive the free or discounted phone service. The reports of fraud prompted PSC member Doug Everett to call for tighter oversight on the Lifeline program in Georgia.

THANK YOU!! I would say 25% do not have their insurance card with them. Probably 50% tell you there's been no change in anything, then we file with the company we have on file to have it denied, send a bill, get an angry phone call, tell them what insurance info we have on file for them, they call back with a different card. And, even if it is the exact same insurance, a new card may show different deductibles and/or copays or, may have a change the group number where the company changed. The biggest thing is the ones who work for large companies - Publix/Home Depot, etc - who just don't g

I work at the front desk in a doctors office . A couple of weeks back, I was saying how people didn't know much about their insurance. Well, many people have had new benefits take effect October 1. Please, if you are one of these people, if you don't have an insurance card or you haven't received anything from your hr dept, please, please either go online or call your insurance company. I do not have esp.....If I try to help you by either logging on or calling your insurance company myself and either print our or have your ins company fax me your benefits, please do not take it out on offi

I worked in after school care for a year....we banned playing with balls also. Basically, by the end of the first semester, everything had been banned and all the kids could do was sit or swing. Want to know why - parents. We tried kickball and parents complained that the smaller kids weren't being treated fairly. The kids started a dodgeball game one day and mothers in car line were outraged. Then came chasing and playing tag - someones kids were "tagged" too hard or another said her child told her that she was always "it" - which wasn't true. On and on.....we even got in trouble for a

My link 60 minutes piece When it began back in the 50s, the disability fund was a small program, intended only for people who were unable to work because of illness or injury. Today, the 60 Minutes team reported, the disability fund serves nearly 12 million people, up 20 percent in the last six years alone. But perhaps the most surprising figure in Kroft's story is the overall size of the program: it has a budget of $135 billion -- more than the government spent last year on the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the Labor Department combined.

I blame both parties equally. I believe the democrats are more out of touch with us than the republicans. I'm having a hard time swallowing the fact that congress doesn't have to have the same insurance. If the healthcare coverage is to equalize us - then everyone should participate.

When I called to set up payments with the hospital a few years back, I was told of several places to apply for "community money" to pay for my bill....I said no, there were people who really needed it and i could pay my payments.

Our last HOA and this HOA "choose" a garbage collector that would give the neighborhood a discount if a certain percentage of the neighborhood changed....the initial letter sounded as if we must change. I said no and found that they actually cannot force it. The reasonings were sound - one provider means less wear/tear on the roads with the heavy trucks as only one day would have garbage collection and we'd all pay one low price with a guarantee not to go up for a certain amount of time. Still, we stayed with who we wanted to.

First off, some insurance companies (especially Medicare) will REQUIRE certain tests be administered together or they will reject the claim. Secondly, others are complaining that doctors do not do preventative care. Patients walk in the door thinking htey are smarter than the doctor and they ask for certain tests and do not think the doctor is doing his job if he didn't run the tests (I've had our doctors talk to many patients AGAIN to explain they didn't think the tests were necessary). Don't get me started on people asking for certain meds because their brother in laws sisters mothers unc

Well, we're tired of blaming Bush And, yes, we've needed changes to healthcare for a while - it's called personal responsibility. I'm in the middle of another thread where teachers are debating the "common core" that's very similar to this thread.

I disagree....if you put back the money you save with a catastrophic plan with a high deductible, you can pay your out of pocket expenses and most physicians, dentists, optician, optomo, etc will give a 15% - 20% discount to people with high deductible plans simply because they don't have to use the manpower on dealing with insurance.

The supplementals do help the patient out of pocket, although I'm not convinced that with healthy retirees the premiums costs outweighs out of pocket costs - anyway, supplements do NOT cover the rest. We are REQUIRED to write off anything not covered - all in all, for a standard run of the mill yearly physical our cost per patient to perform services vs reimbursement with medicare/supplemental will equal 75% of our actual billing- maybe.

Hubs sent me this link when I was telling him about this thread....Now this concerns me if it is true that the company is prohibited from offering insurance to those with less than 30 hours. My link and maybe y'all have seen this, but I had not: My link

we purchased the software to do this and we had training (and continue to do so) - which by the way, the doctors pay us while we are being trained. I'm telling you, you have no idea what this is doing inside the offices. Patients - including myself - do NOT want to give the information and I don't blame them (or me). But, I see how not having the information will affect our reimbursement - what little there is in some cases. I hit the floor as I was sitting in on a training session and heard the rep say that our supplies were $27 per patient per test and I know what we're being reimbursed.

Thank you for calling your HR....however, your HR dept usually doesn't know that, while you are covered by, say, United Healthcare, some aspects of your policy are "farmed out" to other entities. The devil is in the details. Thanks...I had to find full time work....I'd worked part time for 2 years.....Here's the info I meant to copy in my message: Currently, in Stage 1 of meaningful use for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, CQMs are required as a core meaningful use objective. EPs, EHs and CAHs who wish to participate in the EHR Incentiv

Usually when I post anything, it kills the topic, but here goes. I now work in a medical office. My eyes have been opened wide. I am shocked and amazed. Patients have no clue of what their insurance is or what it covers. I have comments daily of "isn't your computer hooked to my insurance", "my insurance has always covered this and I'm not paying for it", "you don't need that information". We now have to gather "meaningful use" - if you don't fill it out, I'm finding that not only our office, but most offices, "guess" at the answers instead of having a patient pitch a fit. Don

Large job fair Wednesday at Cobb Civic Center Employers, service organizations, colleges and universities will recruit during the job fair 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11. This free event will be held at the Cobb Civic Center, 548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta. Participating organizations include Aflac, Amerigroup Community Care, AT&T, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Flightworks, Inc., Homeland Security Investigations, Staples and WellStar Health Services.

My link Nature's corner market at Due West/Due West/Acworth Due West/Kennesaw Due West is an awesome resource for everything gluten free. My hubby has been on meds for years - they wouldn't call it irritable bowel or any one diagnosis. Took him mostly gluten free months ago. Has made a world of difference.

Working with the younger generation, I can tell you first hand - at the middle school age - a very hard age - seeing a peer with a baby getting a lot of attention and seeing the peer appear to have one person (said baby) that they love who loves them back - can send a powerful message to a pre teen or teen who is struggling to find her "place/niche". Yes, it can encourage others who may not have a supportive family life or who are struggling. Edited to add - while I do not want the preteen/teen mother ostracized by any means - bringing the baby to middle school should not be acceptable.

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First off, I don't believe Zimmerman should have gotten out of his vehicle....With that said, I also think Obama made a mistake today - he's fueling fires AND if he (and anyone else) continues to say Zimmerman is white - then Obama should be identified as white. Zimmerman identifies as hispanic. His ancestry is a Peruvian mother and American white father. But, to the world, he is white.

Boy, 6, accused of trying to steal bikes, then tries to grab officers gun My link and Boy, 6, pulls knife on classmate demanding ipod My link

We always buy a space behind the marietta UMC (their Great American Family Picnic)....email said that if Thursday is cancelled, everything will be moved to Friday.

My link A six-year-old transgender Colorado girl won a civil rights lawsuit after her public school decided she could not use the girls’ bathroom. First-grader, Coy Mathis who was born male, has identified as female since age four. Coy’s parents say they first started noticing when she was about 18-months-old.

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