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Why we can't shop for a bargain CAT scan

The quality of most consumer products for purchase is apparent through review, comparison and competition.

5 reasons health insurance costs are so high

What's behind the out-of-control costs, and how you can keep yours down.

California Supreme Court Rules "Emergency Room Patients" Can't Be Billed If Their HMO Fails To Pay.

At issue in the case is a practice known as balance billing, a practice that typically occurs when a patient is treated for an emergency at a hospital that does not have a fee contract.

Man Dies After Insurance Co. Refuses To Cover Treatment

"Despite being fully insured, every treatment his doctors sought for him was denied by his insurance provider. First-Health Coventry deemed the treatments were either not a medical necessity or experimental."

Mass. OKs small hike in health insurance rates

State insurance regulators approved an average 1.2 percent quarterly increase in base health insurance rates for individuals and small businesses in Massachusetts and announced that two of the state's largest insurers would actually reduce rates in the three-month period starting July 1.

Massachusetts small business health insurance rates continue modest increases

State regulators Monday said they approved third-quarter health insurance rates with average increases of 1.2 percent in the market serving small businesses and individuals, continuing a trend of more modest increases seen over the past three quarters. The new rates are in the Massachusetts “small group” market, which includes tens of thousands of small companies as well as self-employed and ...

Mark Farrah Associates: Analyzing Market Trends and Competition in Health Insurance

Mark Farrah Associates , a leading provider of market data and intelligence solutions, continues to refine database products and analytics to support analysis of health insurance business.

California’s Fight to Stop Health Insurance Price Gouging & the Single Payer Solution

 As California families continue to reel from the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, health insurance premium rates have soared by 153% since 2002, nearly five times the rate of inflation.Businesses are finding it difficult to pay for...