Category Archives: Health Insurance

What?! But I have insurance!

It’s frus­trat­ing to get sick.  No one ever plans for it to hap­pen.  Luck­ily, most of us have insur­ance.  While insur­ance may cover part of your visit, under most plans, you will still have to pay a por­tion of your … Con­tinue read­ing

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PAPERWORK!

  At Impact Urgent Care (IUC), we ask all of our patients to fill out a one ques­tion sur­vey called the Net Pro­moter Score.  It sim­ply asks, “on a scale of 1–10 how likely are you to rec­om­mend us to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Health Insurance 101

Health insur­ance and health insur­ance terms are some­times hard to under­stand. This is par­tially because we don’t spend much time talk­ing and learn­ing about them and par­tially because insur­ance com­pa­nies present, explain and define terms and con­di­tions differently.

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New Year, New Healthcare Plan?

Unfor­tu­nately, you and your house­hold may not be the only ones shak­ing things up this New Year.  It’s been said that employer’s are expected to be mak­ing some changes of their own to your health­care plans.  Because of the health­care reform, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Know Your Health Insurance Lingo

Under­stand­ing your health insur­ance lingo is just the begin­ning to under­stand­ing your health plan. From pre­mi­ums, exclu­sions, and out-of-pocket expenses to PPO, HMO, and deductibles, all of these play a very impor­tant role in deter­min­ing how much you’ll be pulling … Con­tinue read­ing

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