Parents are giving their children alcoholic beverages at a much higher rate than most people realize. Some 709,000 youngsters aged 12 to 14 in the United States are drinking beer, liquor and other alcoholic beverages, a new federal study found. Drinking as a youth is a gateway to potentially lifelong alcoholism. 

Check with your state medical board to make sure the physician’s license is valid, and whether he or she has faced disciplinary action. Those are minimal requirements, however; a higher standard is board certification, which means the doctor has passed a rigorous exam in a specialty like internal or family medicine.

According to a UnitedHealthcare Network Bulletin article published in January 2009, UnitedHealthcare will implement a new policy that will not separately reimburse the following urgent care S codes in any place of service. This policy was stated to be effective second quarter of 2009, so you may begin to see denials shortly.