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Frequently Asked Questions about your health coverage I just received my new member ID card in the mail. When can I start using it? I have not yet received my member ID card. Can I still register the secure member site, ibxpress.com? How can I get a temporary ID card? Click here to read more. Cut Off Dates for 2-1-15 Aetna: 1-15 ON Exchange: 1-15 How to Print UPMC ID Cards Step by step instructions to print temporary ID cards. Click here to read more. Highmark Individual Market Update | Agency Action Alert - Jan. 7, 2015 The Agency Action Alerts for Highmark Blue Shield and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. Click here to read more. Highmark Individual Market Update - Payment deadline extension for Jan. 1 effective dates The deadline to pay for a plan with a Jan. 1, 2015, effective date has been extended to Jan. 12, 2015 (regardless of the date printed on the invoice). 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.
IRS Publication | Health Care Law: What's New for Individuals & Families This publication covers some of the tax provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It provides information that explains how taxpayers satisfy the individual shared responsibility provision by enrolling in minimum essential coverage, qualifying for an exemption, or making a shared responsibility payment. It also provides information about the new premium tax credit. Click here to read more. Obamacare vote to test Democrats’ resolve under Republican majority Republicans took control of Congress on Tuesday promising to whittle down Obamacare but still struggling to figure out how far to go — and whether any of their efforts can succeed with President Obama still in the White House. Click here to read more. What H&R Block says about PPACA H&R Block is looking at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as a chance to attracts tens of thousands of people to its brick-and-mortar offices. Click here to read more. IRS Cautions Preparers about Schedule C Mistakes The Internal Revenue Service reportedly sent over 2,500 letters last month to tax preparers warning about potential errors that the IRS spotted on the Schedule C they filed for their sole proprietor business clients. Click here to read more. Dilemma over deductibles: Costs crippling middle class Physician Praveen Arla is witnessing a reversal of health care fortunes: Poor, long-uninsured patients are getting Medicaid through Obamacare and finally coming to his office for care. But middle-class workers are increasingly staying away. Click here to read more. Independence Blue Cross discloses data breach after records end up in trash Independence Blue Cross, the Philadelphia-based health insurer, disclosed a data breach affecting 12,500 of its more than 2.5 million members. Click here to read more. FFM News Alert for Agents/Brokers: Eligibility Determination Notices with Data Matching Issues Consumers who are still working with the Marketplace to resolve a 2014 data matching issue, and who return to the Marketplace for 2015 open enrollment to update their application and select the same plan or a new plan for 2015 may receive a new 2015 eligibility determination notice with a past due date for resolving a data matching issue(s). Click here to read more. FFM News Alert for Agents/Brokers: Automatic Re-Enrollments Consumers who are being automatically re-enrolled may see a completed 2015 application in their account and be enrolled in a plan before they receive a 2015 eligibility determination notice or enrollment confirmation message from the Marketplace. Click here to read more.
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