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As the 2015 Open Enrollment season is winding down, it’s important to notify URL of the submitted business to avoid any commission delays. Please take a few minutes and input your customer’s information into the link so we can start tracking your business and most importantly…track your commissions. Click here.
Highmark Blue Shield Open Enrollment Update - Agent information not always transferring with on-exchange applications CMS recently identified that healthcare.gov is not always passing the agent's name and National Producer Number (NPN) to health insurance carriers. As a result, Highmark cannot assign agent and agency numbers to these policies, and commission cannot be paid. Click here to read more. Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Open Enrollment Update - Agent information not always transferring with on-exchange applications CMS recently identified that healthcare.gov is not always passing the agent's name and National Producer Number (NPN) to health insurance carriers. As a result, Highmark cannot assign agent and agency numbers to these policies, and commission cannot be paid. Click here to read more. Banet's Bullets: Individual customers: New 2015 prior authorization requirements for high dose narcotics on the Select Drug Program formulary Independence Blue Cross has provided us with the following alert about new requirements for specific high dose narcotics on the Select Drug Program Formulary. Click here to read more. Highmark Update - Revised Accommodation Announcement Talking Points Last week, the governor's office announced Highmark's accommodation regarding access to Magee-Womens Hospital. Click here to read more. Geisinger Health Plan | Group Marketplace Broker Handbook The second quarter handbook. Click here to read more. Geisinger Health Plan | Important Notice - Individual Commissions After an internal audit, it has been determined that Individual enrollment commissions were being miscalculated for certain members, in some instances, as far back as January 2014. The error primarily was from the FFM enrollment reporting and the monthly premium used to calculate the percentage of premium. Click here to read more. Capital BlueCross' Producer Incentive Program is Back! New year. Same great deal. Our popular incentive program is back! Earn extra bonuses on the sale of medical + dental contracts effective February 1 to July 15, 2015. 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.
New SHOP User Guides Now Available Want to learn more about the SHOP Agent and Broker Portal, employer and employee enrollment process, and how payments are made in the SHOP Marketplace? New SHOP user guides are now available to help you and your clients. Click here to read more. CBO Report: Obamacare to Cost Government $50K Per Person A bombshell report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals that it will cost the federal government $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under Obamacare law. Click here to read more. Republicans to Block Legislative Fix to Health-Care Law Congressional Republicans say they won’t move to preserve consumers’ health insurance tax credits if the Supreme Court strikes them down, raising the stakes in the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Click here to read more. Big Changes Ahead for Healthcare Payments Federal Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Matthews Burwell announced plans on Monday to transition Medicare towards quality-based payments from the current fee-for-service model, which promotes quantity of care and accounted for $362 billion in Medicare spending last year. Click here to read more. Health Reform’s First Tax Season On Monday, the IRS announced that individuals who received more exchange-based subsidies than they were eligible for because they accidentally over estimated their income might not have to pay penalties in 2014, although they will still have to pay back the difference of what they should have received. Click here to read more. Penalty Relief Related to Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit for 2014 This Notice provides limited relief for taxpayers who have a balance due on their 2014 income tax return as a result of reconciling advance payments of the premium tax credit against the premium tax credit allowed on the tax return. Click here to read more. Despite lack of knowledge, public supports ACA subsidies Although the industry anxiously awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of providing subsidies to people buying health insurance through the federal marketplace, few Americans have heard of the case that is set to go before the high court in March. Click here to read more. Do You Know the Way to HSA? With the rapid growth in high-deductible health plans, health savings accounts provide an option to pay medical bills and save for the future. Click here to read more. How To Boost Your Retirement Kitty -- Without Contributing To Your 401(k) Sometimes there are ways to boost your retirement saving without investing in your 401(k). For some, it means investing in their business or any number of individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or small-business pension plans. Click here to read more.
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