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Health Insurance Dallas TX

Local resource for health insurance in Dallas, TX. Includes detailed information on local businesses that give access to health insurance, health insurance providers, health insurance plans, as well as information on child health insurance, and content on insurance.

Kris Maksimovich
18170 Dallas Pkwy.
Dallas, TX
Aetna Inc Health Care Insurance
(214) 200-8000
2777 N Stemmons Fwy
Dallas, TX
Alcman Corp.
(214) 905-9905
7506 John W Carpenter Fwy
Dallas, TX
DSG Health Insurance
469-916-3646
11937 Denton Drive
Dallas, AK
AFLAC
(972) 387-8800
14180 Dallas Pkwy
Dallas, TX
Amerigroup Corp.
(214) 678-5500
2730 N Stemmons Fwy
Dallas, TX
Affordable Health & Life Insurance
(940) 206-5583
2614 Hartman St
Dallas, TX
Acumen Healthcare
(972) 385-7292
5310 Harvest Hill Rd
Dallas, TX
3 M Healthcare Consulting
(972) 450-6533
14800 Quorum Dr
Dallas, TX
American Caresource
(972) 980-2503
5429 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy
Dallas, TX
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Insurance Coverage For Pain Management

Based upon Marketdata's research and surveys of chronic pain programs, the single most critical problem facing chronic pain programs continues to be reimbursement and third party approval by insurers. A total of 42.5% of the total group stated that this was the number one issue. The second most important problem mentioned is that there are too many unqualified practitioners in this field, or an increase in the number of poorly trained practitioners.

Here are other issues that were mentioned:

  • pre-authorization for services

  • payor understanding of the importance of uninterrupted treatment, its impact on success

  • disagreement over use of narcotics/medications

  • unethical and fraudulent practices by insurance carriers

  •        Percentage of pain management patients that are covered by/pay by…

                                                         2003              2001                1999

    cash (out-of-pocket)                    2.9 %           2.2 %              5.2 %

    Medicare                                        33.8              27.0               40.4

    auto no-fault insurance                2.2                5.0                NA

    HMO/PPO plan                             22.5              23.7               21.8

    Medicaid                          &n...

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