Mediare rates and private health insurance companies

Patients may start having to pay more money out of pocket for health care if they do not pay attention to their insurers’ pricing policies. As health costs have continued to rise, private insurance providers have looked closely at any areas where they can cut costs. One of the easiest avenues to lowering costs is for these insurers to lower their out-of-network payments, as Aetna began doing in 2009, shifting their payment rates to resemble…