Outsmarting Managed Care: A Doctor Shares His Insider's Secrets to Getting the Health Care You Want

How to Beat the System and Get the Health Care You Want

Are you spending more time pushing phone buttons to work your way through your managed care organization's menu of options and arguing with case managers than seeing your doctor?

Then you need this guide from the ultimate insider--a doctor with more than twenty-five years' experience as a clinician who is also a former adviser to one of the nation's largest health insurers. Here's step-by-step information on how to get the best treatment possible in the current climate of gatekeepers and skyrocketing costs. This book will help you:

  Get the hospital and doctor you want--even ones not in your plan
  Save money on medical bills
  Get second opinions--paid for by your managed care company
  Get top referrals and check on the credentials of doctors inside your plan
  Make sure you're getting the best treatment for such major medical  conditions as cancer, heart disease, infertility, and pregnancy