Topics: Insurance, Marketplace
Topics: Insurance, Health Reform
The health law allows parents to enroll their adult children in their insurance plan until they are 26 years old, but, Michelle Andrews says, if you have an individual plan, and not a family individual one, the distinction might allow your insurer to deny coverage to your child.
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Topics: Insurance, Health Costs, Delivery of Care, Marketplace, Quality, Health Reform
Even as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the historic lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, consumers are already seeing some changes. Jackie Judd talks with KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews about insurance rebates, flexible spending accounts, preventive care (including contraceptives) and easy-to-read insurance labels.
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Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader who received a bill from an out-of-network radiologist after a routine mammogram at an in-network hospital. The reader asks: What can we citizens do to ensure our rights?
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader who had a colonoscopy and was billed a 30 percent co-pay. The reader asks: Aren't preventive services like that free under the health law?
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question about what to do when you're billed by an out-of-network doctor for an in-network hospital visit - a practice known as balance billing. She says negotiating is a good way to address the problem.
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace, Health Reform
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question from a mother about a provision in the health law about extending coverage to children under the age of 26.
It’s that time of year when workers who get insurance coverage through their employers must select a policy for 2012. KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews has tips, including: Don't assume your plan will be the same next year as it is this year.
Related, from KHN: Premiums, Deductibles And Cost Sharing In Employer Health Plans Keep Rising
Topics: Delivery of Care, Insurance
Michelle Andrews shares with Jackie Judd about the health care system ordeal she went through after a bike accident in Canada landed her in the hospital there and about the follow-up care she got in the U.S.
Topics: Health Costs, Quality
Michelle Andrews, KHN’s "Insuring Your Health" columnist, answers a question from a reader on what recourse she has after a doctor refused to authorize an autopsy for her mother-in-law.
Michelle Andrews, KHN’s "Insuring Your Health" columnist, answers a question from a reader about how insurer and provider fees from ambulance service vary around the nation.
This is an occasional video feature. Please submit your question to Michelle: questions@kaiserhealthnews.org.
KHN’s "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews talks with Jackie Judd about convenient ways consumers are getting health care: House calls, workplace clinics and free-standing emergency rooms. And, most of the time, insurers will cover the visit.
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace, Health Reform, Uninsured
Michelle Andrews talks about medical loss ratio, the amount of money an insurer must spend on health care as opposed to administrative costs and profits. The ratio could help ensure consumers are getting the most value for their health insurance premium dollars, Andrews says.
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace, Mental Health, Health Reform, Uninsured
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader who wonders if there are states where they can get both curative care and hospice care at the same time. The health law may provide some solutions, Andrews says.
Topics: Health Reform, Public Health, States
Michelle Andrews, author of KHN's "Insuring Your Health" weekly feature, talks with Jackie Judd about how schools are meeting the growing health care needs of children, from nurses to comprehensive clinics.
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Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader who wonders if they should look for catastrophic insurance coverage if traditional coverage is out of reach. Consider high-risk pools, Andrews says.
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews talks with Jackie Judd about the provisions in the health law that provide for free preventive tests. While the law doesn't apply to all insurance plans, it should cut costs for many people. And, Michelle discusses new ways employers and insurers are pricing different services, to encourage the use of the most effective ones and discourage those that are overused - like sleep studies and knee surgeries.
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Michelle Andrews answers a question from a mother whose daughter is uninsured and needs some inexpensive care. Andrews says going to a community health center may be a good option for her.
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a mother whose daughter lost her insurance and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. What are her options to get coverage?
Topics: Insurance, Marketplace, Health Reform
A reader wonders if she can put her 22-year-old self-employed daughter, who currently has insurance on her own, back on the family policy.
See Michelle Andrews answer other consumer questions.
Kaiser Health News consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader on if access to good health insurance will be better for his sick wife after 2014.
Kaiser Health News consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers a question from a reader on if her son with a pre-existing condition will be able to buy health insurance under the new law.
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace, Delivery of Care
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about some options for seeking health coverage when you're not eligible for Medicare and costs puts other coverage out of reach.
More From This Series: Q&As On Preventive Health Or Options To Get Health Coverage On Your Own
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about what to consider when looking to buy a health insurance plan.
More From This Series: Q&As On Preventive Health Or Seeking Health Coverage When Traditional Coverage Is Out Of Reach
Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Health Reform
Michelle Andrews answers a question from a consumer about why health plans are not touting more preventive health care to save on costs in the system. But, as Andrews details, new plans are going to have to provide many different sorts of preventive health services for free.
More From This Series: Q&As On Options To Get Health Coverage On Your Own Or Seeking Health Coverage When Traditional Coverage Is Out Of Reach
Experts say that only about 10 percent of seniors bought a long-term health care policy and are covered. That could be because it’s tough to decide whether they’re right for you. As Michelle Andrews explains, they have many moving parts: After a waiting period, they generally pay a set daily benefit for a certain number of years, depending on how much you pay and at what age you start paying in. And, they also tend to be expensive. Listen to the audio.
Related column: Few Seniors Have Long-Term Care Insurance
Topics: Health Reform
For the past few months, health reporter Michelle Andrews has been writing about various aspects of the new law for her weekly feature "Insuring Your Health." Today, the six-month anniversary of the signing of the health bill, a number of key provisions officially kick in and Jackie Judd sat down with her to discuss them.
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