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Streamlining the Health-Care Experience

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    Careplanner founder Alan Blaustein on helping people manage health care.

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Submit your family's health care can be challenging math and that's putting it -- Even before the new healthcare law goes into effect for our next guest actually is lots -- company that aims to make it all easier.

He called -- the exact lows of health care.

Can't plan is helps patients navigate through the medical care insurance billing and much much much more.

And it's found there Alan -- dean joins us now it is its own nightmare.

-- completely completely I've seen stories from.

We started the business when I was sick or as a result of it I was diagnosed with cancer in 2005.

And the avalanche of health care just hit -- Everything from finding myself at eight doctors that weren't communicating.

For medical institutions that would not communicate.

Insurance bills coming left right and center some insurance fraud by the providers.

And twelve medications and you said you you happier form of cancer your insurance agents company didn't even have it on the drop down the tubes.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 500 people a year are diagnosed -- his right.

It's between the heart -- one attack it helps you with immune system development in utero I would admit I had the look on a little anatomy chart to figure it out and every other doctor that I went 600.

But I'm speaking to the insurance company they could have funded in the drop down menu so they thought or be tried to -- console cancer tongue cancer tells us starting with -- My goodness yes -- -- thank -- it wasn't Kelton.

So our rates so negative and you actually you realize this is a total mess he -- this.

And I licking county that you know you hire an attorney -- handle your legal -- in my account and your tax -- Some -- you to handle my health care work right we -- do for me and let's let's frame how we're probably helping -- Now that -- -- probably helping you in a caregiver role.

For somebody else in your -- so -- forbid my mother.

God forbid your mother and your mother may live near you you mother -- -- further away.

Mom fall she can't get -- mom gets diagnosed with dementia.

You have fifteen or twenty different decisions that you need to make over a period of time right you can go in try to make those decisions on your own.

Or you -- look for some of the cure rate that experience with you to help you through.

The that you become the middleman sort of and if you consider your attorney -- yes I mean we could all go to court on our own and we can all do our taxes but we don't so okay so you'll handle.

You'll literally go talk to the doctors have seen I didn't they say I have to have some tests done like I had no idea what it is you'll -- talk to -- say hey if it's even necessary.

We'll go and say it's even necessary we're not diagnosing or treating us so we're playing -- intermediary yes you're right between you.

And the physician or between you and the insurance company -- -- -- -- made -- of nurses social workers insurance billing people so all people who are familiar in this but not doctors now.

No they'll be some doctors on staff but the way I founded thus far is.

There's an amazing workforce around this country.

Nurses social workers insurance milling folks and other health care advocates who are putting their own shingles out.

-- work outside the system to help people like me basically navigate the system -- advocates we -- absolutely patient advocates OK and now we have this health care potential health care bill coming.

It's gonna get worse isn't it -- services could arguably be really important going down -- -- well as we head towards more -- quality of care paradigm on which is the Affordable Care Act in the direction that -- had it.

Yet we have found ourselves to be complimentary to everybody in the system who China figured that would be -- primary care physician right on average it's seven minutes with the patient.

Affordable Care Act once and the stopping give them a hug also -- that it.

It's not gonna -- quickly before -- let you go -- bill right now 200 to 700 dollars you're looking noted do it more like you said AAA.

The idea that the way we bill right now is on a per situation basis depending on what you call -- -- I don't wanna -- an -- -- model right but as we advance our business to -- -- AAA model for the family.

Where for an annual fee you'll get some access -- the online tools and -- are care planners and then when you below the tire.

They'll be an additional charge to get that care plan and will -- -- care planners dot com yes.

Alan blasting reflecting healthy reflecting here thank you thank you so much for -- -- check it out it's it's a novel idea and there's this little videos about the was advised that this really think.

We always need help navigate how long are we were not in Kansas anymore I -- certainly night.

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