My husband is having surgery next week. His FSA starts over in April. He has used all the money in for this year. We have our insurance through his employer but I also have an FSA through my employer. Will I be able to withdraw from my FSA to pay the balance of the surgery costs?

My dad was employed at his job for about 30 years and had a good union with great heath benefits (health insurance and drug prescription medicine benefits). My mom is really sick and takes about 6 different prescriptions a month which are really expensive. Since my dad had benefits from his job had only had to pay a co-pay for the drugs. Now he retired and his job does not have retiree benefits. Is there any affordable way for my dad to get the drugs my mom need? She is already on medicare plan b but does not qualify for the prescription medicine part D. Any ideas?

I went to the emergency room for symptoms suggesting a life-threatening illness. It turned out I did not have a life-threatening illness and the ER doctor diagnosed something much less severe. However, now my health insurance company is refusing to pay for the emergency room fee based on that diagnosis.

This seems unethical to me. My symptoms indicated an emergency, so I went to the hospital. Just because it turned out I didn’t actually have a condition requiring emergency medical attention, doesn’t mean my health insurance company has the right to deny me coverage.

I’m not really sure how this works. After you’ve met the deductible in a health insurance policy, do you continue to make co-payments, or does it switch to co-insurances? Or does it depend on the plan?
I’m talking about emergency room visits and routine doctor appointments – generally insurance plans allow coverage before the deductible is met.

Do I have to go to my doctor first to get a prescription for Plan B or can I just get it over the counter at a pharmacy? Will my Medicaid insurance cover it without a prescription? Thanks so much for your help

I’m planning on breast feeding but have found breast pumps to be expensive. I’ve heard that CO Medicaid will pay for a manuel breast pump and for an electric pump with a prior auth from insurance. Has anyone ever done this? What would be medically needed to get an auth? I just heard that the electric ones are so much easier.

I need to know the name/number of the year-end statement that medical insurers provide for reporting medical expenses for tax purposes. I don’t know if my provider automatically sends time out via snail mail, or just makes them available online and I need to know the form to find out.
The insurance provider I had last year (I’ve switched jobs since) provided a statement outlining everything we paid out of pocket. Maybe it was specific to them and I assumed it was a tax form.

I went to the emergency room on October 12, 2010 late one night

I charged the bill that night to my Medicaid. When my prescription was filled out a few hours later, I went to a pharmacy and was denied because my insurance was canceled.
I called them and they said they canceled my medicaid on September 30.

That means I would receive the ER bill. It’s November 14, when would I receive it? I’m really worried about paying this bill.

If you had insurance and only visited the emergency room and was not admitted.

One of my co-workers said after she had her baby, bills stared coming in because medicaid will not cover co-pay if you have a private insurance. She said it is a new law. I have bn seen 5 times and really worried if i do. For that reason I applied for medicaid so they can pick up what my private insurance wont. By the way I live in the sate of oklahoma

I am planning on substitute teaching which doesn’t offer health insurance. What is the best way to go about getting health insurance for just me?

Do patients often face the choice of waiting 2 weeks for an appointment or going to the emergency room for relatively minor things, like a cut that needs a few stitches, an infection which may or may not be swine flu, etc? Does this practice drive up the cost of health care and insurance?

We would not have any kind health insurance to cover any thing that would arise.

The work we will be doing will be strictly volunteer.

I’m just curious to hear what you think. I’m no doctor of course, but how much do you think a standard emergency room procedure for a heart attack should cost. Like how much the doctor and attendants should be paid for such a service? Or whether or not they should receive a standard pay.
Well I was kind of getting to the bottom line with this question. Inquiring about how much specifically one believes doctor’s should charge for these services. Insurance companies and medicare aside.

My wife and I where in a car accident and she was 32 weeks pregnant. We have had to go to the emergency room about 5-6 times and then they check her in and then go to labor and delivery. They hook her up to the machines and monitor her vitals for a few hours. She has had one overnight stay and alot of tests and steroid shots to prepare the baby for early delivery. My question is how much do these visits cost on average????
Yeah It was the other persons fault. My wife is fine now it happened in early July. My wife was just wondering how much our attorney was going to get for all the medical bills added up!
we have a lawyer. The other insurance company is going to pay for everything. They took full responsibility for the accident… my question is around how much did all of these visits add up too??? (5-6 er visits, 2 steroid shots, 2 perscriptions, 2 sonagrams, 1 overnight stay, some blood work, alot of urine tests, and always admitted into hospital and sent to labor and delivery to be hooked up to there heart monitors for the baby as well as the contractions monitor)