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Tapping into Employer-provided Mental Health Benefits

As the stressors of the last few years increased the attention paid to mental health, many employers realized that they should play the same kind of role in their employees’...

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Decoding Benefits Acronyms and Abbreviations

Benefits documents sometimes seem to be nothing but a bunch of bewildering acronyms strung together. But the meanings behind those letters should be anything but bewildering because they represent key...

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How to Read an Explanation of Benefits

Most people who have health insurance have become accustomed to receiving an Explanation of Benefits (or “EOB”) after a provider visit. Usually prominently marked “This is not a bill,” the...

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Eyes and Teeth: When are they Covered?

Your eyes and your teeth have something in common: They tend to be treated differently than the rest of your body when it comes to health benefits. In fact, you...

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Be a Better Healthcare Consumer

For a long time, people with employer-provided benefits were pretty complacent about healthcare costs. In recent years, though, as more and more cost has shifted to patients and deductibles have...

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Your Benefits: Emergency Care and Urgent Care

When a pressing medical condition presents itself, your first thought usually isn’t, “What will my healthcare benefits cover?” But that often will be your second or third thought, and knowing...

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How You Pay for Healthcare

Paying for healthcare can be confusing. It’s one of the few things we purchase without knowing what we’re going to pay until days, weeks or even months after we receive...

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Traveling with Benefits

When planning trips and vacations, health coverage is one of those things we seldom consider but probably should. After all, accidents and illnesses can occur while you’re traveling, and if...

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Prescription Benefit Basics

With prescription drug prices driving a big chunk of healthcare costs, your prescription benefit card can be a pretty powerful income-protection tool. The challenge, as it turns out, is understanding...

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How Your Benefits Plan Comes Together

Employees tend to think about all the components of their benefit plans for only a short time each year, when they are asked to enroll. It would be easy to...

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