Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don't even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us. That's where Medicare For Dummies, 4th Edition comes in, explaining how this complex system functions and helping you confidently navigate your way through the maze to get the most out of your coverage. This indispensable resource untangles Medicare in friendly, straightforward language. Step...

Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.

Most people don't understand health insurance, and insurance companies know it. Unfair denials, late payments, and hopeless confusion are the norm. At last there is a solution. In eight easy steps, Making Them Pay gives practical advice about the things that drive people crazy. Like: -Figuring out what health plans really say -Understanding what benefits they provide -Finding, and understanding, the exclusions -Determining what health plans really...

An essential guide to starting a career in medical billing and coding. Health care is growing by leaps and bounds, and every medical office, hospital, and urgent care center needs at least one medical billing expert. This up-to-date guide walks you through everything you need to know to get started in an exciting new field, showing you how to find a medical coding certification course, deal with government agencies and insurance companies, and more....

Potter shows how a huge chunk of health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.

When his wife, an investigative journalist, dies mysteriously in the hospital on the eve of surgery, Dr. Harry Corbett comes face to face with a sinister and malignant killer, Anton Perchek, working for a ruthless group of insurance executives.

The ultimate resource for understanding and navigating the Affordable Care Act. Katz uses simple and easy-to-follow language in answering the important questions about the ACA, and shows you how to get the most out of your healthcare plan without having to sacrifice your needs or empty your pockets.

"This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"-- "On November 13, 2009, Josh Blackman and a group of Federalist Society lawyers gathered in a Washington, DC, hotel to devise a legal challenge to Obamacare. It seemed a very long shot and was dismissively ignored...

Health care reform has been at the center of political debate during the past decade. Everyone agrees the current system needs changes, but it seems few people can agree on how many changes and what kind. Some believe it simply needs a few small adjustments, while others believe it should be completely scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up. Detailed graphs, full-color photographs, annotated quotes from experts, and enlightening sidebars augment...