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Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and author of the "Ask Phil" column on the PBS Newshour's Making $ense website, Moeller is primed to offer this guide on health care and medical insurance basics, part of the publisher's "Get What's Yours" series. Here's everything you need to know on understanding telemedicine and health apps, finding true health costs and cheaper prescriptions, and slugging back when faced with denied insurance claims and inflated bills. With a 100,000-copy first printing.

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Moeller ("Get What's Yours" series) draws on his experience working for a large health insurance company to explain how health insurance works and how to take advantage of the complex system that plays an important role in American healthcare. Moeller, a financial journalist and entrepreneur, writes with a conversational tone and includes an impressive range of information covering topics like health insurance basics, building your personal health care team, and new options for health care. Readers will find value in real-world examples of patients who successfully advocate to receive quality care without ruinous financial consequences, along with end-of-chapter action items that help readers determine the most important ways to take control of their health care experience. Whether the reader is new to the world of health insurance or an experienced patient or caregiver, this is a good book to reference as it excels at providing detailed overviews and recommends additional tools and information to help readers make more informed decisions before, during, and after receiving medical treatment. VERDICT Readers may still remain overwhelmed by the American health care system after reading this brief overview, but will become more informed and better equipped to manage their health care.—Rich McIntyre Jr., UConn Health Sciences Lib., Farmington

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In this easy-to-understand guide, Moeller clearly explains this country’s confusing medical system, plagued by too few caregivers and too little transparency about wallet-busting bills. Health care in the U.S. costs roughly twice as much per person as it does in other developed countries. Moeller, who penned the “Ask Phil” Medicare column for the PBS NewsHour website, Making Sen$e, and "The Best Life" column for U.S. News & World Reports, is an old hand at giving wise advice, historical context, and helpful statistics. So he knows how to authoritatively caution plan holders to ask about annual deductibles, copays, out-of-pocket maximums, and prescription drug coverage. Enacted in 1965, Medicare covers nearly 54-million Americans 65 or older and about 10-million with disabilities, offering Part A (hospitals, nursing homes), Part B (doctors, outpatient expenses), and Part D, sold by private health insurers, for prescription drugs. Medicare Advantage plans can include dental, vision, hearing, and sometimes gym memberships. Moeller notes that Walmart Health delivers primary and urgent care and lab, dental, optical, and hearing services seven days a week. It even posts prices. Now that’s a good Rx.