Friday, February 6, 2009

Cheap Texas Medical Insurance -- Steps To Help You Get It

By Chimezirim Odimba

Cheap Texas medical insurance is available to all who have received certain pieces of information. There are simple things that will really help you get the right coverage at lower rates. Do you know those things? Let's look at a few here...

1. You'll attract less affordable rates simply because your vocation exposes you to much hazards. Switching to a non-hazardous occupation will reduce your rate by a good margin. Due to the fact that a clerk in a a bookshop isn't exposed to any health hazards like a nuclear plant worker, he or she would attract cheaper rates.

2. Paying your premium yearly will result in lower rates than opting for monthly payments. You might be sold that monthly payments are convenient but what you don't know is how much more you pay for this.

There are transaction fees that are incurred when processing a check. In a year, your monthly checks would be processed differently because they are all different transactions. You will then have to pay the sum of 12 transaction charges.

Apart from this, there are also administrative costs that are incurred due to the monthly payment option. For example, it costs some money to mail payment notices monthly.

The additional administrative cost to your Texas medical insurance provider is ultimately borne by you (that's in addition to their own profit margin for providing such a "stressless" option).

3. What you're willing to contribute to payments for each visit to a doctor has a bearing on your rate. This is what is known as your co-pay in case you don't know already. Your rate will be cheaper if you choose a higher co-pay. You're especially encouraged to choose a high co-pay if you visit the doctor just once in a very long period.

4. It will cost you far less and reduce your rates if you buy your prescriptions over the internet. You can also get lower prices if you buy by phone. Drugs are cheaper online because the cost of running a business is considerably cheaper with the internet. However, you will do well to check the company you're buying from so you do not put yourself at risk. Just visit BBB online and you will know if you should buy from an exact company. Don't forget that while we want to reduce costs we also want to stay safe. Checking with BBB online and other such services will help you stay safe while you buy at more affordable rates online.

5. A straightforward but smart way of bringing down your rate is by authorizing an EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). This simply means your Texas health insurance provider withdraws your premiums automatically from your account at specified periods without sending you payment notices. This removes administrative costs like those incurred when mailing payment notices. Your rate is therefore lowered in line with the cheaper cost of giving you health insurance in Texas.

6. You might save some hundreds of dollars by just obtaining and comparing quotes from not less than five quotes sites. And, it will require only a total of 25 minutes.

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