Thursday, May 12, 2016

According to a recent nation-wide survey of emergency physicians:


  • 96% said that emergency patients do not understand what their health insurance policies cover for emergency care
  • 8 in 10 are seeing patients with health insurance who have forgone or delayed medical care because of high costs
  • 62% say most health insurance companies provide less than adequate coverage for emergency care visits
  • Over 60% have had trouble finding in-network specialists to care for patients in the last year
  • A quarter of them say they have trouble finding in-network specialists on a daily basis

Source: "Insurance Companies Mislead Patients By Selling "Affordable" Policies That Cover Very Little," American College of Emergency Physicians News Release, May 9, 2016, http://newsroom.acep.org/2016-05-09-Insurance-Companies-Mislead-Patients-By-Selling-Affordable-Policies-That-Cover-Very-Little

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