Financial health literacy for the integrative practitioner

In my experience as a healthcare practitioner, patients rarely know what their insurance plan covers. The norm is for them to call the office and ask if you take their insurance. The expectation is on the doctor to call the insurance carrier and determine the exact parameters of coverage. The patient may or may not know the amount of their copay or if they also have a co-insurance fee. They are certainly not likely to know the difference. Earlier this month, David Himmelstein, PhD, and…