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Highmark Commisions Information Due to issues with the data received from the federal exchange, Highmark has been unable to load any on-exchange business sold with January effective dates into our commission system. Click here to read more. Healthcare.gov Payment System Still to be Built The back-end payment system of Healthcare.gov is still being built, a senior Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official said Thursday in testimony on Capitol Hill. Click here to read more. Rules for Equal Coverage by Employers Remain Elusive Under Health Law The Obama administration is delaying enforcement of another provision of the new health care law, one that prohibits employers from providing better health benefits to top executives than to other employees. Click here to read more.
Weekly PPACA Update Conference Call We recognize that many of you have questions that need answered in regards to the PPACA Law (Obamacare) and the opening of the Marketplaces on 10-1-2013. So, in a continuing effort to assist our agent-partners in getting the information they need to flourish within the under 65 group and individual health market, we are implementing a weekly telephone conference that will serve as a place to get your questions answered and discuss topics that will lead to your continued success in the health insurance market. Click here to register. Weekly PPACA Conference Call Archives Click here to view the archived recordings of the PPACA Conference Calls.
Understanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Subsidies In building out our State Exchange Insurance Comparisons, we had to account for the subsidies provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA creates a subsidy system for low and some middle income families to help in the purchase of insurance on the state insurance exchanges. Click here to read more. Look Out for the ACA’s ‘Double Whammy’ Some small businesses are facing a potential “double whammy” in 2016 from the Affordable Care Act, one expert warns. While they are currently exempt from the employer mandate to provide insurance and not considered part of the “Small Group Market”, small businesses with between 50 and 100 employees will find that all that changes for the worse in 2016, according to Mark Dietrick, CPA, ABV, author of The Financial Professionals Guide to Healthcare Reform and past chair of the American Institute of CPAs’ National Healthcare Industry Conference Committee. Click here to read more. Big jump seen in Medicaid signups More than 6.3 million people have been determined eligible for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage since the October start of open enrollment, the Obama administration announced Wednesday — but it’s still impossible to say how many are newly insured because of Obamacare. Click here to read more. Aetna CEO says health care costs are out of control While the rise in medical costs has slowed since the last recession, the U.S. still needs to switch to a “fundamentally different” system that pays for the quality of care rather than the quantity, Mark Bertolini said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Davos, Switzerland. Click here to read more.
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