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Pennsylvania AG warns residents about insurance fraud Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is warning Pennsylvania residents that insurance fraud can get them into a lot of trouble and that costs trickle down to every resident. Click here to read more. Over 300,000 On The Brink Of Losing Obamacare Coverage Hundreds of thousands of Obamacare sign-ups are about to lose coverage if they don’t cough up more information about their citizenship and immigration status. Obamacare administrator the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday that the agency sent letters notifying 310,000 customers who have failed to fix errors in their citizenship or immigration data that their coverage will be terminated Sept. 30 if they don’t submit proof by Sept. 5. Click here to read more.
URL Insurance Group is once again offering Certification Support Sessions for the 2015 Federally-Facilitated Marketplace required testing. The sessions will enable you to sell market plans for Individuals, Families, and Groups for the balance of 2014 and for all of 2015. Click here to read more. Find Opportunities Outside of ACA Enrollment The window may be closed, but we're about to open doors. Did you know options exist for those that missed the enrollment deadline and for those that are struggling with high-deductible exchange plans? Click here to read more. Weekly PPACA Update Conference Call In a continuing effort to assist our agent-partners in getting the information needed to flourish within the under 65 group and individual markets in Pennsylvania, we are holding weekly live webinars. They will serve as a place to get your questions answered and discuss topics and strategies 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.
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Submit your certifications for completing the 2015 FFM and FF-SHOP trainings to Highmark through the Sales Sentinel site. Click here to read more. Highmark Blue Shield Submit your certifications for completing the 2015 FFM and FF-SHOP trainings to Highmark through the Sales Sentinel site. Click here to read more. UPMC Health Plan 2015 FFM Certificates of Completion can be emailed to producerrelations@upmc.edu. Geisinger Health Plan 2015 FFM Certificates of Completion can be emailed to GHPBrokerLicensing@thehealthplan.com. Capital Blue Cross Producers who have completed the training and registration process to sell on the Marketplace should email copies of their certificates and their FFM User ID to cbcproducerlicensing@capbluecross.com or fax them to 717-540-2282. Producers who need to complete the training and registration can reference the Producers in the Federally Funded Marketplace attachment. Blue Cross Northeastern PA Producers who have completed the FFM certification will receive a “Certificate of Completion.” E-mail a copy of that certificate and the National Producer Number (NPN) that was used to register with CMS to Broker.Submission@bcnepa.com and Kerri.McKeown@bcnepa.com.
Opportunity, potential threats ahead for small business carriers Just over a quarter of the potential pool for small business health insurance has been penetrated by the industry, and that number appears to be declining. But that also means there's new opportunity for carriers seeking small business health insurance clients may be just around the corner. Click here to read more. PPACA premiums to increase 7.5 percent Premiums under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are slated to increase by an average of 7.5 percent in 2015, according to preliminary analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute. Researchers analyzed filings from 27 states and the District of Columbia, and found that the average premium will be $384, before subsidies. Click here to read more. Top 3 consumer worries about 2015 enrollment Sure, the law requires nearly all Americans to get health coverage. But it doesn’t mean consumers are convinced it’s going to happen. According to Bankrate, 35 percent of rural Americans fear too many people will still be uninsured, compared with 29 percent of suburbanites and 26 percent of urban dwellers. Click here to read more. Millions of uninsured Americans exempt from ObamaCare penalties in 2016, report finds A new congressional report has estimated that more than 25 million Americans without health insurance will not be made to pay a penalty in 2016 due to an exploding number of ObamaCare exemptions. Click here to read more. NAHU Washington Update: The IRS Is Awesome When it comes to federal agencies with good reputations, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn’t usually top the list. However, this week it was the taxman’s turn to shine as a new report from the U.S. Treasury’s inspector general shows that just about the only thing that was working well when the federal health insurance exchange opened up its doors last October was the data link to the IRS. Click here to read more. Where shoppers pay more for exchange plans Rural residents paid higher premiums and had fewer options on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2014 than their urban counterparts, according to new analysis. Click here to read more. 27 PPACA reporting obligations employers need to know Aflac's Workforces Report for Brokers recently divulged that nearly 50 percent of brokers are considering leaving the industry, due largely to a landscape vastly changed by PPACA. Click here to read more.
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