Given the unprecedented challenges physicians face in the U.S. healthcare system, one question is tantamount: How did we allow the American Medical Association (AMA) and vote-seeking government lawmakers to hijack our profession and deliver it to the insurance...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...