Insurance Medical Temporary

There are many disasters that could possibly happen to your business. While you and any business owner would prefer to never think about preparing for such disasters, since you are a medical business, you have to. It is important that you make sure your patients will still receive the care and the attention that they need even when your business faces disaster. For example, no matter how hard you try to safeguard your business, there could be a detrimental fire. If this happens, you need to be able to fall back on your medical answering service. How can you depend on an answering service even in the face of such a disaster as a building fire? Think about things from your patients’ perspectives. Maybe they have already heard about the fire and they are wondering if they have lost their medical service. Alternatively, maybe they have not heard and will not know what to think if they cannot contact your business. In either case, if your patients call your office and they cannot re .. Read More

The National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit organization devoted to fire safety, states in its September 2007 report that U.S. fire departments responded to 1,642,500 fires in 2006. That is one fire every 19.2 seconds. The damage from fire is heartbreaking. In 2006, fire claimed some 3,245 civilian lives and resulted in more than $11 billion in direct property loss. That puts fires ahead of hurricanes ($5.4 billion a year), floods ($5.2 billion a year), and earthquakes ($4.4 billion a year) for direct annual losses. The U.S. Fire Administration, a federal agency, reports that the indirect costs of fires—including medical expenses, lost business, temporary lodging, and psychological damage may be ten times larger than the direct costs. No wonder fire insurance is the central feature of homeowners insurance. Fire insurance was the first form of homeowners insurance. It was the brainchild of Nicholas Barbon, an English physician, economist, and businessman who helped wit .. Read More