New Rule Means Greater Health Care Transparency

Let's say you need a medical procedure that requires a specialist. How do you find one? Most of us rely on a recommendation from our...

Social Gaming Aims to Make Health Care Fun

Forget personal trainers, diet apps and support groups. When it comes to motivating healthy behaviors that promote wellness, there's...

Check Your Health Insurance IQ

If you're shopping for health insurance for individuals, ignorance is not bliss. The more you know, the more likely you'll find ...

How to Shop for Individual Health Insurance

If you get your health insurance through your employer, you may find recent news from the Congressional Budget Office unsettling. CBO ...

Understand Your Health Care Bills and Save Money

One of the best ways we know to save money on health care (or anything else, for that matter) is to not pay for services you didn't ...

Sleep Disorders and Health Insurance

Maybe it's the economy, but Americans are having an increasingly difficult time falling asleep and staying asleep. The U.S. Instit...

Health Insurance: What To Do After Obama’s Speech

November 14, 2013 by Steve Scearcy President Obama announced Thursday that health insurance companies will ...

ACA Deadlines for 2014: What You Need to Know to Get Enrolled

ACA Deadlines for 2014 and What They Mean to Your Health Insurance Enrollment   You've shopped around the Marketplace and made y...

ACA Tax Penalty and ACA Tax Credits Are Tricky Waters to Tread in 2014

The Premium ACA Tax Credit: What's the Benefit and Who Qualifies?   While it won't affect your 2013 tax return, you may be e...

When Going Out of Network Makes Sense

If you have health insurance, there's a good chance your healthcare is provided by an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization), a PPO...

Understanding Your ACA-Mandated Mental Health Services

Mental health is just as important as physical health to your over-all well-being, but health insurance plans didn't always see it...

How to Hold Down Healthcare Costs

We won't know for sure until the rates are published later this fall, but the news is that health insurance companies nationwide are ...

How to Choose the Right Health Insurance Plan for You

Odds are good you have health insurance through your employer, like most do. But for the many others who buy their insurance individua...

Healthcare Metal Plans at a Glance

Open enrollment to purchase ACA-compliant healthcare plans for next year ends January 31, 2016. That sounds like plenty of time but, b...

7 Trends in Employer-Provided Health Insurance

Health insurance is evolving, and so is the role of employers who provide health insurance benefits. During World War II, when wage ...

Do You Qualify for the Medicare Extra Help Program?

With costs for prescription drugs edging ever higher, it is difficult for seniors on limited incomes to pay for the medications they...

Health Insurance When Abroad

Traveling abroad can be good for the soul, but hard on your peace of mind because you never know when something could happen. You need...

Tips for Saving Money on Prescription Drugs

In 2015, drug costs in the United States spiked upwards. People who don't have prescription insurance coverage were hardest hit,...

Hybrid Policies: Long-Term Care and Life Insurance Combined

With an aging population, paying for long-term care continues to be a concern. But there are several reasons people hesitate to purcha...

Protect Your Assets with Long Term Care Partnership Insurance

August 31, 2016 by EINSURANCE Most states now use Partnership for Long-Term Care to encourage people to p...

How a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Works

Health insurance coverage provided by your employer comes with an option not available to individual policies: a Flexible Spending A...

The Future is Here: New Technologies in Health Care

With a health care system struggling to be more cost efficient while enhancing and advancing patient care, technology has proven to be...

How to Stay Out of the Hospital

Have you ever had to stay in a hospital? If your answer is yes, you probably aren't anxious to do it again any time soon. Especi...

Should You Purchase Pet Insurance?

We love our pets. Americans own an estimated 70 to 80 million dogs and 74-96 million cats, according to the ASPCA. Small wonder an est...