Announcing Extended Hours for the Health Plan Options Department

As we get closer March 31st and the close of the Initial Annual Enrollment Period for Individual health both on and off the exchange, we are announcing extended hours for your convenience. URL’s Case Managers will be available to assist with your submissions so you can secure the desired effective date. The extended hour schedule is:

Friday, March 28th 8-4:30 (Cut-off Date for 5-1 effective dates is 3-31)
Applications for a 5-1 effective date MUST be received at URL no later than 2:00 on Monday, March 31st

Remember that unless you have a Qualifying Event, you can’t enroll after March 31st!

Don't Forget! 12 Days Left to Sell Capital BlueCross Catastrophic Plans

Sell more and win through March 31! Fore! Grab your golf bag, break out your clubs, and shake off the winter doldrums. Capital BlueCross is offering incentives that will get your 2014 golf season off to a great start! Click here to read more.

Highmark Agency Action Alert - March 19, 2014

Important Individual Market, Producer Portal, and Group Client Mailing information. Click here to read more.

House GOP: Obama administration abandoning ‘individual mandate,’ should surrender to repeal

Republicans said Thursday that the Obama administration has left a giant loophole in its own individual mandate requiring all Americans to obtain health care coverage, saying a vaguely worded “hardship” exception announced last week will let millions of Americans duck the law. Click here to read more.

Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine statement regarding federal announcement

Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine provided the following statement regarding the recent federal announcement on health policy extensions. Click here to read more.

Banet's Bullet: Share our Platform Transformation Playbook with customers

Good Afternoon Brokers. Now that the Highmark migration is upon us, Independence Blue Cross has a source of information that can help guide you through it. Click here to read more.

Weekly PPACA Update Conference Call

– There has been no extension on the Enrollment Deadline of 3-31-14.

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.

One-third of uninsured won’t sign up for PPACA

With just two weeks remaining before Obamacare’s big deadline, more than a third of uninsured Americans (34 percent) say they don’t plan on buying health insurance, despite the law’s requirement to do so, according to a Bankrate.com report out Monday. The enrollment deadline is March 31. Click here to read more.

Feds slash at state PPACA navigator curbs

HHS would make an exception for state-based exchanges that have decided to have all Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) small-group business come in through agents and brokers. HHS also wants to pre-empt state rules that would require exchange helpers to back off when they find that consumers already have health coverage or already have relationships with agents and brokers. Click here to read more.

LEG REG REVIEW

LEG REG REVIEW is a periodic newsletter produced by PHILLIPS ASSOCIATES, a professional lobbying and consultant firm located near the State Capitol. It contains news on the legislative and regulatory scene in Pennsylvania that may be of interest to the Insurance and Business Communities. Click here to read more.

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