HNC Let's Talk Podcast

Most Americans suffer from the delusion that they will not be disabled during their lifetime.  Unfortunately, the reality is quite different. Over a quarter of working Americans will be affected by a short or long term disablement during their career. 

Recently, both Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp revealed that they were among the entities whose customers had their data compromised as part of a larger cyber breach. When and where HIPAA comes into play when breaches happen at third parties isn’t always so cut and dry.

Now let us illustrate the concept of reimbursement. Reimbursement are methods utilized by benefit plans to recover money against parties who may have caused, or in some way be responsible for, an injury or loss that resulted in payment.

In a nutshell, subrogation and reimbursement are methods utilized by benefit plans to recover money against parties who may have caused, or in some way be responsible for, an injury or loss that resulted in payment by the benefit plan on behalf of a plan beneficiary. 

If you don’t know about the cost differences between emergency care and urgent care, you’ll spend a $1,000 or more at the ER instead of $150 at urgent care. 

Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 13 on Thursday, and the new law is scheduled to go into effect on Aug. 2, after passing through Colorado’s General Assembly.

The so-called conscience rule will encourage discrimination against women and the LGBT community by limiting access to contraceptive care and abortion as well as services required by transgender Americans, according to complaints filed Tuesday in federal courts in New York and California.