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IRS Gears Up for Impact of Health Care Reform on Tax Season Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen told a congressional subcommittee about the IRS’s progress on the Affordable Care Act and the impact that tax subsidies will have next tax season. Click here to read more. Final Rules on Exchange Re-Enrollment Released It's hard to imagine a three-day weekend without the federal government releasing a final rule. In true form, last week the Obama Administration finalized the 2015 Re-Enrollment Rule. You may remember that NAHU submitted comments on the proposed rule just after Annual Convention. Click here to read more. Healthy PA FAQ's Healthy Pennsylvania is a Pennsylvania-specific plan that reforms Medicaid, protects taxpayers and provides increased access to quality, affordable health care coverage. It is built upon common sense reforms that provide coverage options to our most vulnerable citizens in a flexible and sustainable way that brings financial stability to the state’s Medicaid program. Click here to read more.
Highmark Blue Shield Individual Market Update: Highmark Announces Decision to Not Renew Pre-2014 Products After careful analysis, Highmark has decided it will not renew pre-2014 individual market plans in central Pennsylvania. Click here to read more. Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield announces decision to renew certain individual market pre-2014 products in western PA In March 2014, the federal government announced that insurance carriers, with the consent of their state insurance commissioner, could offer individuals the option to renew existing, pre-2014 plans. Click here to read more. Banet's Bullets: Enhanced Blue Solutions and Blue Solutions Plus plans and brochure Please find important information about the the upcoming year and the changes and updates that can be expected. We will be going over this information in detail at our Broker Seminar on September 29, 2014, at the Crown Plaza in King of Prussia. Click here to read more. Get reacquainted with Capital BlueCross Individual Plans for 2015! Where: Colonial Golf and Tennis Club, 4901 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg, PA 17112 Highmark's transition plan to Pennsylvania Insurance Department clarifies network and consumer protections and launches new member resources in advance of UPMC contract termination With the goal of reducing customer confusion about its members' access to UPMC facilities and doctors, Highmark Inc.'s final transition plan today was posted on the Pennsylvania Insurance Department website and will be implemented immediately by Highmark. 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. Last URL session to be held on 9/23/14, register now! Click here to read more. PrimePay Broker Webinar Series - September 2014 We have spent the last few monthly broker webinars discussing how you can better mitigate compliance risk for your clients - COBRA, ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, etc. Now, as we are entering the 4th quarter, let's turn our attention to strategy to help you guide your clients through their customized benefit offering. Click here to read more. Register Now for 2015 Group Product Webinar from Capital BlueCross Join us for a 90 minute course designed to get you familiar with our newest products. From the comfort of your home or office, learn about the changes to the Capital BlueCross family of companies 2015 group benefit offerings for medical, Rx, dental and vision products. Additionally, we will cover group communication and renewal mapping. 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.
Assurant Health FFM Certs should be forwarded to dennis.besler.jr@assurant.com. FFM Certificate needed to sell Aetna in 2015 For the upcoming Open Enrollment Aetna will require a copy of the brokers FFM certificate in order to sell and be paid commissions on marketplace plans. Below I have included some information on how you and the agents can submit their certificates. Click here to read more. 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. Correct link to submit CMS training certifications. 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. Correct link to submit CMS training certifications. 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. Banet's Bullet: 2015 IBC Commercial Sales Sentinel program for David M. Banet & Associates
Corbett administration's Healthy PA program under review for $48M price tag Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has sent a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett requesting details on the $48 million spent by the commonwealth to prepare for Healthy PA, the administration's Medicaid expansion alternative plan. Click here to read more. Individual health gains as group health shrinks In 2013, U.S. employers may have cut the number of people in their medical plans to 169 million – down from a peak of 179 million in 2008, and the lowest level recorded since 1997. Click here to read more. GAO: HealthCare.gov Has Security Flaws Federal government auditors have identified weaknesses in the technical controls protecting the security of the federally run Obamacare HealthCare.gov website and systems. Click here to read more. Capital Blue Cross Communication 682 - Capital Blue is Coming to the Harrisburg Area Following the success of our first-of-its-kind retail store in the Lehigh Valley and our promise to build on that success, we are pleased to share with you that our second Capital Blue store is on its way. The new retail center will be located at the Hampden Marketplace in Enola, Cumberland County with an anticipated opening in the Spring of 2015. Click here to read more. Highmark Update - Highmark e-Card - Leading the change in the health care marketplace Please consider sharing the e-Card below with your clients. The focus of the video is about changing the tone in the health care marketplace. We want our members and the entire community to know that we are working on their behalf. Click here to read more. Employers fail to meet key ERISA requirements There are two ERISA requirements that, for the most part, employers are just not meeting. That's the word from 71 percent of brokers who say their clients aren't maintaining plan documents or providing employees with summary plan documents—two major requirements under ERISA, according to an HR360 survey. Click here to read more.
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