Several types of Medical Insurance are available depending on state and/or federal regulations and how you want to classify them. Fee-for-Service (sometimes called Indemnity Plan). You can use any medical provider (such as a doctor and hospital). You or they send the bill to the insurance company, which pays part of it. Usually, you have a deductible�such as $200�to pay each year before the insurer starts paying. Once you meet the deductible, most indemnity plans pay a percentage of what they consider the "Usual and Customary" charge for covered services. The insurer generally pays 80 percent of the Usual and Customary costs and you pay the other 20 percent, which is known as coinsurance. If the provider charges more than the Usual and Customary rates, you will have to pay both the coinsurance and the difference. The plan will pay for charges for medical tests and prescriptions as well as from doctors and hospitals. It may not pay for some preventive care, like checkups. Managed Care . Most Americans have some kind of managed-care plan. Various plans work differently and can include: health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and point-of-service (POS) plans. Managed care plans provide comprehensive health services to their members and they offer financial incentives to patients who use the providers in the plan. Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). A PPO is a form of managed care closest to an indemnity plan. A PPO has arrangements with doctors, hospitals, and other providers of care who have agreed to accept lower fees from the insurer for their services. As a result, your cost sharing should be lower than if you go outside the network. In addition to the PPO doctors making referrals, plan members can refer themselves to other doctors, including ones outside the plan. If you go to a doctor within the PPO network, you will pay a copayment (a set amount you pay for certain services�say $10 for a doctor or $5 for a prescription). Your coinsurance will be based on lower charges for PPO members. If you choose to go outside the network, you will have to meet the deductible and pay coinsurance based on higher charges. In addition, you may have to pay the difference between what the provider charges and what the plan will pay. Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). HMOs are the oldest form of managed care plan. HMOs offer members a range of health benefits, including preventive care, for a set monthly fee. There are many kinds of HMOs. If doctors are employees of the health plan and you visit them at central medical offices or clinics, it is a staff or group model HMO. Other HMOs contract with physician groups or individual doctors who have private offices. These are called individual practice associations (IPAs) or networks. HMOs will give you a list of doctors from which to choose a primary care doctor. This doctor coordinates your care, which means that generally you must contact him or her to be referred to a specialist. With some HMOs, you will pay nothing when you visit doctors. With other HMOs there may be a copayment, like $5 or $10, for various services. If you belong to an HMO, the plan only covers the cost of charges for doctors in that HMO. If you go outside the HMO, you will pay the bill. This is not the case with point-of-service plans. Point-of-Service (POS) Plan. Many HMOs offer an indemnity-type option known as a POS plan. The primary care doctors in a POS plan usually make referrals to other providers in the plan. But in a POS plan, members can refer themselves outside the plan and still get some coverage. If the doctor makes a referral out of the network, the plan pays all or most of the bill. If you refer yourself to a provider outside the network and the service is covered by the plan, you will have to pay coinsurance.
The best and most known company that offers business medical and medical insurance in US is MetLife. Some other companies that offer business and medical insurance in US are Liberty Mutual Group, All State, Travelers and many more.
Medical insurance is not required to obtain a US visa however if a visa is granted some programs require that you have medical insurance during your entire stay in the US
Many health insurance plans do not provide coverage outside of the United States; if they do, it may not be a full coverage. Also, specialty medical insurance for traveling abroad can cover situations that your medical insurance will not, such as medical evacuation.
There are many different insurance companies and many different insurance policies, and they have different eligibility requirements. In general, in the US most medical insurance is in the form of group insurance for employees of a given company. For the unemployed, it's a lot harder to get medical insurance. In other countries, insurance may be much more easily available. In Canada everyone is insured, by the government of the province in which they live.
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Medical insurance jobs can be found on one of the may job hunting websites, like Monster, that are available to us all the time. Medical insurance jobs can also be found on hospital websites or insurance websites.
The US Government offers health insurance for employees in the public sector. For employees in the private sector, they have to purchase their own medical insurance.
If you have medical, yes because your medical under your car insurance covers your passengers, regardless of fault.
Many of us do, but it depends on your health insurance contract, not on state law.
There are many good medical insurance companies in the United States, such as, Blue Shield/Blue Cross, Aetna, Celtic and Health America. Medical Mutual has a high 5 star rating from the US News. It boasts of 42 plans and has been listed as one of the best health insurance companies.
It all depends on who your buying from and what your medical record is like.It also depends on you are buying for whom, There are a lot of different options for the medical insurance.Now a day's it is very important to have medical insurance , so last month only i purchased medical student insurance for my son as he is staying away from us so he in need of this kind of insurance.
There are many reasons one would want a term life insurance with no medical exam. Lifesource Direct, Mutual of Omaha, and Matrix Direct only ask a few medical questions, but do not require an exam.