A Guide to Long Term Care Insurance
Helps you understand what long term care insurance is, what it costs, and how to select a plan. Also available in Spanish. (Health Insurance Association of America)
Interpreting Your Explanation of Benefits
Helps you understand the explanation of benefits you receive from your insurance administrator. (Patient Advocate Foundation)
Managed Care Answer Guide
Guide to assist you in choosing, understanding, and utilizing your health plan. (Patient Advocate Foundation)
Patient Glossary of Billing Terms
Guide to commonly used financial terms in the health care field. (Healthcare Financial Management Association/Patient Friendly Billing Project)
Protecting the Privacy of Patients’ Health Information
Fact sheet that explains the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). How to File a Health Information Privacy Complaint with the Office for Civil Rights. Information on how submit a complaint if you believe that a person, agency or organization covered under the HIPAA Privacy Rule violated your health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the Privacy Rule. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Top 10 Ways to Make Your Health Benefits Work for You
Guidance for finding the health plan that best meets your needs and preferences. (U. S. Department of Labor)
Understand Your Health Insurance and Medicare Options
Information to help you understand Medicare, Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap), managed care, and other health insurance options. (American Association of Retired Persons)
Usual, Customary, and Reasonable Charges Defined
Explains the use of a predetermined set of fees made by health plans. (Patient Advocate Foundation)
Your Medicare Coverage
Frequently Asked Questions
Provides information about health care benefits in the Original Medicare plan. (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care
Consumer guide with checklists, questions, charts, and other tools for choosing health plans, doctors, treatments, hospitals, and long-term care. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Health Plan Report Card
Health Plan Report Card is an interactive tool designed to help you find the health plan that’s right for you. (National Committee for Quality Assurance)
A Consumer Guide for Getting and Keeping Health Insurance
State-by-state information on your rights under federal and state law that will protect you when you seek to buy, keep, or switch your health insurance (Georgetown University Health Policy Institute)
BenefitsCheckUpRX
Web-based tool that helps you identify the public and private prescription savings programs you qualify for. (Access to Benefits Coalition and American Hospital Association)