Top hospitals dispute cost rankings

Leaders of Maryland’s renowned teaching hospitals are feeling vulnerable as the push for a health care overhaul focuses attention on the tremendous differences in hospital costs around the country.
Urban academic medical centers such as top-ranked Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland, with its world-class trauma center, are more expensive to run than community [...]

Orthotics and Your Feet

Orthotics are devices which fit into the shoe to aid the foot. “Functional orthotics” are rigid and designed to control motion and correct the function of the foot. Individuals with flatfeet, tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, certain foot deformities, knee, hip and back problems may benefit from functional orthotics. “Accommodative orthotics” are soft and designed to reduce [...]

What is home health care and why do I need it?

What is Home Health?
Home Health Care is skilled nursing care and certain other health care services that you receive in your home for the treatment of an illness or injury. This could also include physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Medicare Part A will cover home health expenses at 100%. Private duty home care is not [...]

What you Need to Know About Using an Online Pharmacy

When using an online pharmacy you will generally be able to shop for all of the typical pharmacy items you are accustomed to like vitamins, over the counter medicines, diabetic supplies, and the like. Also, you will be able to have your prescription filled by the online pharmacy and either pick it up in store [...]

Online Pharmacy -the Cutting Edge Alternative

Online Pharmacy is perhaps entering a new era of cost saving measure. A Study conducted by the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation data analysis results concluded that retail sales and individual prescription drug spending rose 18.8% from 1999 and 2000 from $111.1 billion to $ 139.9 billion.

Their studies also indicates [...]

All About Disability Coverage

Disability insurance policies are designed to pay part of your wages should you be injured in an accident or are unable to work because of illness. Here are two types of policies available: long-term disability and short-term disability.
Short term disability pays a portion of your wages should you be out of work due to injury [...]

Vision Impairment and Low Vision Options

Vision Impairment and Low Vision Options

When your vision is impaired or you are considered to have moderate low vision to profound low vision their can be light at the end of the tunnel for some. Visual acuity is not always a way of being able to determine how severe the problem may be. Different lifestyles [...]

Low Vision: the Next Frontier

Loosely defined, low vision is the reduced sharpness of eyesight or a narrowing of the visual field. A person is said to have low vision when glasses, contact lenses, or surgery are ineffective or unavailable as a complete remedy. The condition can arise from any number of sources such as birth defect, disease, [...]

How To Buy Health Insurance And Not Empty Your Wallet

If you thought buying life insurance was tough, just wait until you shop around for health coverage. Unlike an employer sponsored plan that has to accept everyone at the same price, private plans in most states are underwritten based on your age, weight, smoking status and health history.

In some cases, applicants will even have [...]

Can Baby Boomers Afford Healthcare in the New Year?

As reported on the Today Show in their segment “Today’s Boomer Nation” the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP) offered some staggering statistics related to Baby Boomers (those Americans born between 1946 and 1964) and Healthcare.  Of the nearly 78 million Baby Boomers living in the United States the AARP offered these very [...]

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