Ancillary Topics

Speaking with Employers - consider visiting Self Funding Success and On Site Clinics.  

Prior Authorizations - Don't waste your time!  Fight back with the advice of Dr. Greg Zydiak.  Here is a copy of the form he uses.   Here is the legal precedent he relies on - Gary Gibson, MD v Medco Health Solutions of Columbus North Ltd.

Board Certification

• Change Board Recertification
• National Board of Physicians and Surgeons
• Kentucky has proposed legislation forbidding maintenance of licensure and board certification employment discrimination
  Similar legislation is also under consideration in Arizona

Health Sharing Ministries
- While technically "not insurance" these plans meet the mandate - here is the CMS form members may file to avoid the tax.

• Altrua Healthshare (their tax status is less clear than the others, but they do have this letter from CMS)
• Christian Healthcare Ministry
• Liberty HealthShare
• Medi-Share (Christian Care Ministry)
• Samaritan Ministries

Price Transparency

• Healthcare Bluebook
• Pricing Healthcare
• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
• ClearHealthCosts
• GoodRx
• BlinkHealth
• MediBid
• DocCost
• Surgery Center of Oklahoma (outpatient surgical procedures with all inclusive prices)
• Guroo (an effort to list average prices in the third party system)
• RxPriceQuotes 
• Doximple 
• PriceMDs

The Best State to Practice Medicine

• States Ranked by Certificate of Need Laws (By the Mercatus Center)