When a health insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, the company generates a file around your claim. All the records associated with your case should be part of your ...

A new website, FightHealthInsurance.com, is empowering Americans to take on health insurance companies over denied claims by simplifying the process of appealing claim denials. Newsweek has contacted ...

Discover which services are typically not covered by health insurance, including cosmetic procedures, fertility treatments, ...

Health insurance has become necessary, with large and unpredictable health care costs always looming before each of us. Unfortunately, the majority of people have experienced problems when using their ...

Federal data shows that health insurance companies denied more than 49 millions claims in 2021, but customers appealed less than 0.2 percent of them. Investigative journalists at ProPublica found that ...

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the ...

As we enter health insurance open enrollment season, patients should be aware of an alarming trend—the escalating rate of health insurance claim denials—and what they can do to advocate for themselves ...

Remember tug of war? Your team pulling as hard as possible to make the dangling middle string cross the line before the other team, working on outmaneuvering you, builds a winning strategy for your ...

Concealing health details may help secure a policy, but it can derail claims later. Why full disclosure—not approval—is the ...

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