This title sounds rather restrictive. It is and it is meant to be! Of the 700,000 licensed physicians in North America fewer than 500 are full-time medical directors for life insurance companies. Many more have broader corporate roles as employee health physicians, medical director of health insurers or as providers of medical care for segments of the community. Others are involved in disabilit...

PURPOSE In Korea, the entire population must enroll in the national health insurance system, and those who are classified as having a lower socioeconomic status are supported by the medical aid system. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of the medical insurance status of gastric cancer patients with their survival after gastrectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 247 pati...

BACKGROUND The Second China National Sample Survey on Disability in 2006 showed that the participation rate of disabled Chinese rural individuals in social medical insurance participation was less than 30%. However, there has been limited number of studies on the influencing factors, especially contextual factors, affecting their participation in social medical insurance. Therefore, this study ...

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© 2003 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Most physicians wonder occasionally about the practice of medicine in days gone by. What sort of relationship did their forebears have with their patients? Did they have to cope with paperwork? What was life like for the average doctor of the time? I recently obtained, for a few dollars at a stamp collectors’ auction, a life insurance questio...

Social medical insurance schemes are crucial for realizing universal health coverage and health equity. The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how reimbursement for injury-induced medical expenses is addressed in Chinese legislative documents relevant to social medical insurance. We retrieved legislative documents from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure and the Lawyee dat...

BACKGROUND The health insurance system in Taiwan is comprised of public health insurance and private health insurance. The public health insurance, called "universal national health insurance" (NHI), was first established in 1995 and amended in 2011. The goal of this study is to provide an updated description of several important aspects of health insurance in Taiwan. Of special interest are ho...

This paper models individual medical care consumption over an insurance year, explicitly accounting for variations in the effective price of medical care due to several characteristics of the health insurance contract. We explain behavior during the health insurance year by solving and estimating a stochastic, discrete choice, dynamic optimization problem that characterizes an individual’s deci...

The advent of serum automated test batteries has been a great aid to clinical medicine in testing for various disease states. The relevance of these batteries to the insurance medical director has become increasingly important as more applicants with a significant medical history of various impairments seek life, disability and health insurance. This is especially true since many insurance comp...