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Medical Insurance Questions

Total questions: 3434

What is considered a preexisting condition?
Popularity: 634

How can you get affordable family health insurance if you are self-employed?
Popularity: 367

Can you designate the primary and secondary insurance coverage yourself?
Popularity: 285

How can you get your insurance provider to sign up doctors as in-network?
Popularity: 264

Do any insurance companies cover plastic surgery?
Popularity: 260

Is it possible to get insurance if you are pregnant?
Popularity: 258

How do you determine if you have a 'preexisting condition'?
Popularity: 252

What do you do if you didn't know a doctor was out-of-network?
Popularity: 238

Can you get insurance for a 'significant other'?
Popularity: 235

Can you pay now for coverage later?
Popularity: 233

Where do you find affordable health insurance for a single mother of three?
Popularity: 230

Is pregnancy considered a pre-existing condition?
Popularity: 230

What is a variable copay?
Popularity: 224

What happens to your medical insurance if you lose your job?
Popularity: 223

Is pregnancy considered a preexisting condition if the person purchased insurance after they were pregnant but did not know they were pregnant?
Popularity: 221

Can you get health insurance if you've been diagnosed with lupus?
Popularity: 218

Can you get medical insurance for your family that's separate from your own policy?
Popularity: 214

Can you choose whether your ex or your new spouse is covered by your medical insurance?
Popularity: 213

Is a 19-year-old dependent daughter covered for maternity care?
Popularity: 208

Can you be denied health insurance if you are diagnosed with herpes?
Popularity: 207

Do doctors in Pennsylvania have to preauthorize your insurance before any surgical procedures?
Popularity: 207

How do you switch to your spouse's health insurance?
Popularity: 204

Why should you get medical insurance?
Popularity: 203

Can you switch to a spouse's insurance after losing your own?
Popularity: 203

Will you be denied coverage for alcohol abuse?
Popularity: 202

Is it legal for a doctor to charge one price if a patient pre-pays and another price if insurance is billed?
Popularity: 198

Can employers offer health coverage for same-sex couples and not for 'significant others'?
Popularity: 198

Is being pregnant considered a pre-existing condition when changing insurance?
Popularity: 195

Is a divorced man's child covered by the significant other's insurance plan?
Popularity: 194

If two parents carry insurance for a child whose is considered the primary?
Popularity: 194

What health insurance company will insure a person with a pacemaker?
Popularity: 191

If you change jobs will the new insurance company cover a dependent's cancer treatments assuming the new employer provides sufficient coverage?
Popularity: 191

Does having a pacemaker make you uninsurable for medical insurance?
Popularity: 190

Can your employer charge back insurance after maternity leave if you decide not to return to work?
Popularity: 190

Can an employer force an employee to take the health insurance they are offered?
Popularity: 189

Can an employer require you to show confirmation of medical coverage before you can drop your existing insurance?
Popularity: 188

Is it Medicare fraud for a company to bill commercial insurance companies a higher fee-for-service than they are billing Medicare for the same service?
Popularity: 187

If divorced parents both carry insurance and father's is primary can the mother file hers as primary?
Popularity: 182

Is there any law in PA that says you must use your insurance instead of your spouse's as your primary?
Popularity: 182

How can you get needed surgery in North Dakota if you have no health insurance?
Popularity: 181

If you are a 39-year-old working woman who's pregnant what kind of insurance is recommended?
Popularity: 180

Where can you get medical insurance quotes?
Popularity: 179

Does new medical insurance coverage automatically become the primary coverage?
Popularity: 178

Can a non-custodial parent find out how much the custodial parent was reimbursed by secondary insurance carried by the custodial parent?
Popularity: 177

What insurance company will provide medical coverage for a person with lupus?
Popularity: 176

Is a man required to continue to provide medical insurance to his wife after they have been separated for 2 years?
Popularity: 174

If one has found precancerous cells and has them removed is this a pre-existing condition if that person gets the precancerous cells again or even cancer when switching jobs?
Popularity: 173

What are the benefits of having primary and secondary medical coverage?
Popularity: 172

Is workmens comp responsible for the 20 percent your insurance does not pay on doctors bills and prescriptions?
Popularity: 171

Will any insurance cover a Type 2 diabetic who takes insulin?
Popularity: 170

If medical insurance will not cover injuries from an auto accident why do they ask if you have it and then limit your coverage?
Popularity: 169

If you were fine when you applied for coverage then had some problems but no diagnoses can your insurance say you had a pre-existing condition?
Popularity: 169

If within a few months of getting insurance you are diagnosed with hepatitis C and need a liver transplant can the insurance company cancel your policy?
Popularity: 169

Where can you find insurance companies who have offers for pregnancy 'pre-existing' plans around 2-3k?
Popularity: 168

Can an employer force an employee to drop group health insurance coverage because the employee is eligible for coverage through his spouse's plan?
Popularity: 167

Is it legal to have your own health insurance through your employer as well as being on your spouse's employer's health insurance plan?
Popularity: 166

With Primary and Secondary Insurance your primary denied your claim because it was over a year is your secondary obligated to pay?
Popularity: 166

Does an employer in NY have to contribute equally by class of employee to health insurance premium?
Popularity: 163

If a child's name is inadvertently left off of the enrollment form when enrolling for family coverage can the claims be denied for this child?
Popularity: 162

If you have an HMO Medicare Plan that you are not satisfied with can you go back to Medicare being the primary plan?
Popularity: 161

Do you get dropped from your parents insurance the day you graduate from college or is there a grace period to allow you to get insurance on your own?
Popularity: 158

If you have med insurance through work that pays 80 percent of your medical bills can you get additional coverage that would help pay the other 20 percent?
Popularity: 155

Will there be any lapse in coverage if your old employer and new employer use the same insurance company?
Popularity: 155

When does medical insurance stop for a child insured by the non-custodial parent's coverage if the child is 18 but a full time college student?
Popularity: 155

Is it possible for a 24 year old woman who is 3 weeks pregnant to find medical insurance in Missouri?
Popularity: 153

If an Insurance Company pays for services rendered by Doctors Office yet does not post and cash check until after patient has moved on to a new plan is patient still responsible for original payment?
Popularity: 153

If you do not get insurance through your new employer and your wife if pregnant where can you get insurance now and what should you look for when shopping around?
Popularity: 149

If you and a spouse have different health insurance but have never designated one as primary or secondary could this cause problems when you do designate primary or secondary?
Popularity: 140

If already reviewed approved and receiving short term disability benefits how can long term disability be denied only because they consider the problem to be pre-existing?
Popularity: 137

If you are considering rhinoplasty and the doctor suggested septoplasty as well which insurance will most likely pay for will your insurance company cooperate?
Popularity: 124

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