Expert provides financial guidance in using a healthcare plan

Published August 5, 2025
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Aleta Ostlund, a lecturer in the Department of  Family and Consumer Sciences at Cal State Long Beach, was featured in the online personal finance company publication, , about the financial aspects of healthcare coverage. Ostlund said the most important steps Americans can take to minimize health-related expenditures is to thoroughly understand the  plan and network. Staying with physicians and healthcare within the plan's network is the responsibility of the patient, so understand everything that is and isn't covered.