Healthcare that needs attention
by Bert Vorstman | Jul 24, 2021 | Urgent Care
HEALTHdrum is a cost-transparent healthcare marketplace product for routine office-based and outpatient care. HEALTHdrum is not a platform for emergency treatment. Self pay for urgent care is often cheaper and more convenient than dealing with the hassles of your...
Cash price care as a health benefit
by Bert Vorstman | Jul 17, 2021 | Cash pay
Gig workers, part-time workers and those in-between jobs commonly lack health benefits. Although many see this as a disadvantage being free of health plan control and costs can be of great benefit. The advantages of being free from health plan control. The odds of a...
A top self-care treatment
by Bert Vorstman | Jul 10, 2021 | Blood Pressure
Checking your blood pressure to make sure it’s a normal 120/80 is the easiest and simplest medical screening you can perform on yourself and, with the greatest upside. High blood pressure is extremely common and leads to premature death, strokes, angina, heart...
Healthcare is an insurance industry monopoly that profits at everybody's expense
by Bert Vorstman | Jul 3, 2021 | Health Insurances
The health insurance industry controls patients, employers, and doctors by gaming the business of health benefits. Healthcare is an insurance industry monopoly that through scare tactics and misrepresentations has fooled everyone – including governments and the...
Putting routine healthcare back in the hands of patients and doctors
by Bert Vorstman | Jun 26, 2021 | HEALTHdrum
The costs for routine healthcare have ballooned out-of-sight. The root of the problem is the fee-for-service business model and unnecessary coverage of generally affordable routine care needs. The current prescription for healthcare services is unsustainable for both...
Cash price care can deliver big savings
by Bert Vorstman | Jun 19, 2021 | Cash pay
Why pay for an expensive health insurance plan when you pay for routine care anyway with copays, deductibles and non-covered services? Don’t be over-insured and overpay. Move to high-deductible health plans for unlikely major medical issues and pay for routine...
Healthcare that needs attention
by Bert Vorstman | Jun 12, 2021 | Health Insurances
The health insurance industry is in the business of making money – not covering your health problems. In fact generally, the more “affordable”, the greater the “advantage”, the “better” the deal, the “cheaper” the plan, the less you get covered. The health...
Cash pay patients cut overhead and allow better margins
by Bert Vorstman | Jun 9, 2021 | Doctors
By working directly with patients physicians can bypass many of the burdensome administrative headaches that have raised overhead and lowered income. Cut costs and reclaim your profession. Visit www.HEALTHdrum.com Come join our healthcare community and discover how...
Lower healthcare benefit expenses
by Bert Vorstman | Jun 5, 2021 | Employer health benefits
Employers spend about $20,000 per five member family for a year’s worth of health insurance coverage. However, after factoring in co-pays, deductibles, pre-existing exclusions and noncovered services most of their employees are paying for their day-to-day...
Self pay care lowers your overall healthcare costs
by Bert Vorstman | May 29, 2021 | Cash pay
Most patients with health plans covering routine care services are severely over-insured wasting hundreds of dollars each year. A better option would be to self pay for routine care needs and cover the unlikely possibility of a major medical event with a...
