Health News- Health Cost Websites Not Much Help (CME/CE) June 19, 2013(MedPage Today) -- A growing number of state-run websites are designed to help consumers compare the cost of healthcare services, but most lack critical pricing information and aren't all that useful, a study found. […]
- HIV Experience Shaped New AMA President's Views June 19, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Ardis Hoven, MD, was inaugurated Tuesday night as the American Medical Association's 168th president. She sat down with MedPage Today for a one-on-one interview. […]
- New Coronavirus 'Eerily' Like SARS (CME/CE) June 19, 2013(MedPage Today) -- The novel coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East is eerily similar to SARS, according to an expert who was part of a team studying a cluster of cases in hospitals in Saudi Arabia. […]
- ICD Not to Blame for Higher CV Mortality After Shock (CME/CE) June 19, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Certain inappropriate shocks from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator are associated with an increased mortality risk, but it may be the underlying arrhythmia that is more detrimental to patient health, a study found. […]
- Serial MRI Helps Manage Iron Overload (CME/CE) June 19, 2013(MedPage Today) -- A series of MRI exams over time is central to early identification of cardiac iron overload in patients with beta-thalassemia major, according to an AHA consensus statement. […]
- Big Drop in HPV, Vaccine Gets Credit (CME/CE) June 19, 2013ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- The prevalence of human papillomavirus infection has declined by more than half since the introduction of the HPV vaccine, despite low vaccine uptake, according to a study by the CDC. […]
- AMA House Votes Against Council, Calls Obesity a Disease June 19, 2013CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Obesity should be called a disease and not simply a condition, the American Medical Association's policy-making House of Delegates voted on Tuesday, ignoring a recommendation by one of its own councils. […]
- Docs Ask Obama for Access to Gitmo Prisoners June 18, 2013(MedPage Today) -- More than 150 physicians and other healthcare professionals have published an open letter to President Obama asking him to allow independent physicians -- not military doctors -- to visit hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay. […]
- AMA House Disses Recertification Programs June 18, 2013CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- The policy-making body of the American Medical Association made its disapproval of board and licensure recertification programs heard loud and clear Monday at its annual meeting. […]
- Exercise Plus Diet Key to Kids' Weight Loss (CME/CE) June 18, 2013(MedPage Today) -- Diet and exercise together were more effective at dropping weight and improving metabolic profiles in overweight children compared with diet-only interventions, researchers found. […]
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When it comes to getting bills from a doctor’s visit, it can get pretty confusing pretty quickly. It is important to understand that just because you are in your doctors office does not mean that office is the only entity providing a service. You must consider lab work, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and specialists. In rare cases, your primary physician may take on the billing for all of the services but usually the bills are all handled through insurance. Your insurance will pay the various providers and then provide you an EOB or Explanation of Benefits. Then the various companies involved will all send bills to you. So, when you pay the co-pay at the doctor’s office visit, it doesn’t end there!