I regard medical services as a right as well as eye care and dental.
The right is for the basics to full fill the need for a healthier life starting as children into adult hood.

Every person has a right to regular visits and check ups to maintain healthy lifestyles. Nutrition training is another vital service that can be taught in communities and schools under medical services.

Unfortunately a large portion of the population will deal with a catastrophic event at least once in their life time. The results can be the need for medical attention for the trauma or disability that an event may cause for the rest of your life. It may become an issue from child hood when you go through puberty, decide to have children or menopause and on as you age.

Examples could be diabetes, cancers, rheumatic heart diseases or inherited mental health or damage caused by early birth or the medical ability to save children with various medical conditions at birth.

When Medical care becomes long term it is interesting as a teaching case but a burdon on the medical systems.

What ideas would you contribute to any changes in the American Health Service Industry?

First if you are a teaching case and a intern or resident provides service and uses a treatment to rule out something should you as a patient be charged for that particular cost when used as a teaching procedure?

Second if you are not insured you are charged the full price of a service even the doctors or facilities accept negotiated prices from goverment or insurance carriers.

Third when you receive the greatest amount of service when you are ill and vulnerable yet during your recovery is when the greatest amount of billing and payment and collection stress is put on a person.

You can pay large fees to private billing advocates or could hospitals goverment or facilities provide a service to negotiate cost, protect against code and billing errors or suggest recoding a procedure
example: These are just some of the services a Claims Assistance Professional can provide:

* Organizing health insurance paperwork
* Reviewing medical bills and determine proper payment
* Filing claims with insurances (medical, long term care, FSA, HSA)
* Tracking claims to ensure they are accurately processed
* Challenging claims that are denied by the insurance company
* Contacting providers and insurance companies on behalf of clients to resolve claim problems
* Assisting with the selection of Medicare Part D drug plans and medicare supplement plans
* Assisting with choices during employer open enrollment
* Providing education on benefits and options
* Auditing hospital and provider charges
* Negotiating with providers on patient balances


So what bold intitives would you like to see?



This is my priority issue and I am curious and will check back for your input. If the topic develops I may have to copy and forward to government officials and committee heads. Think about it and please input. Keep personal attacks on each others opinions low key although addressing whay something might not work can redirect the interest to different solutions.