Connect2Docs ‘bundling’ of services for self-pay patients = big savings
The Self-Pay Patient has been up and running for about six weeks at this point, and I’ve probably brought to readers’ attention dozens of different providers, companies, facilities, organizations,...
View ArticleSaving on drug costs with pharmacy discount cards
Buying generic drugs to save on prescription drug costs can result in big savings. But sometimes there are no generics available, or the generics that are available don’t work. In other cases, the...
View ArticleThe Health Co-Op – bundling self-pay services for health sharing ministry
Earlier this month I wrote about Connect2Docs, a company that has bundled telemedicine, health screening, bill negotiation, and a drug discount card into one package, which offers great value to...
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Telemedicine providing needed care at an affordable cost
One of the many options that self-pay patients have for affordable primary care is telemedicine. The concept behind telemedicine is fairly simple – patients sign up and provide their medical history to...
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Webinar for medical bill mediation services
One of the financial risks self-pay patients face is going to the hospital for treatment and getting hit with so-called ‘chargemaster’ prices. These prices are hugely inflated over what the real price...
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Telemedicine delivered face-to-face
I’ve written a couple of times about telemedicine, featuring companies that offer convenient access over the phone to licensed doctors for consultation, diagnosis, and treatment of relatively simple...
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Insurance agency touts critical illness insurance as alternative to health...
Some time ago I wrote about how critical illness insurance policies could be an affordable alternative to more comprehensive health insurance, and suggested that self-pay patients might want to look...
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Self-pay patients share their experiences
I’ve had a couple of self-pay patients let me know about their own experiences, one of them a user of telemedicine services, another using a prescription drug discount card, and a third on how people...
View ArticleTelemedicine breaks through on ABC News
One of the interesting things I’ve been able to watch since I wrote my book The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare and launched this blog has been growing interest...
View ArticleMedical bill negotiators in the spotlight on ABC News
The other night Michelle Katz was on ABC News describing how a family that had been hit with a $50,000 bill for what seems to have been a normal c-section birth was able to use a medical bill...
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