Capital BlueCross UPDATE Anthem Data Breach

Recently, Anthem notified CBC that another small percentage of additional members impacted by the attack were revealed as a result of the FBI‘s ongoing criminal investigation. Click here to read more.

Assurant (AIZ) Completes Strategic Review; Plans to Exit Health Insurance Market

Assurant has concluded a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives for its health business and will exit the health insurance market as the Company sharpens its focus on housing and lifestyle specialty protection offerings. Click here to read more.

Highmark Commission Information - Upcoming changes to commissions for SEP enrollment

Highmark remains committed to our producers and to our mutual clients across all markets that we serve. Click here to read more.

Federally-facilitated Marketplace Agent and Broker Training and Registration for Plan Year 2015 Closing

Beginning on June 15, 2015, the 2014-2015 Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM) training and training curriculum completion certificates for Agents and Brokers will no longer be available on the Medicare Learning Network® (MLN) Learning Management System (LMS) as we prepare to launch the training for plan year 2016. Click here to read more.

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Product Information - New large group offering: Connect Blue EPO

Connect Blue EPO, a Community Blue plan, is a new, lower-cost, three-tiered EPO plan design with no out-of-network coverage (except for situations such as emergencies and compliance with consent decree provisions). Click here to read more.

Capital BlueCross Individual Health Portfolio

Join us for a webinar on June 17th at 10AM to get a fresh look at Capital Blue’s Individual portfolio. Find out how to submit business and walk away with an understanding of where the products are most competitive. Click here to read more.

Reminder: FFM Agent and Broker Training and Registration for Plan Year 2015 Closing

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.

Burwell: Health care on threshold of big change

The health care system in the United States is on the threshold of changing the course of the nation and what happens now “can impact the life of every American more than any piece of policy or legislation we have seen in the recent past,” Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said Wednesday. Click here to read more.

What are the ACA’s preventive care requirements?

Recent guidance issued jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury clarifies how the Affordable Care Act's requirement to provide cost-free coverage for preventive care applies to several types of products and services. Click here to read more.

Midsize Businesses Seek Relief From Federal Health Law

Employer groups and insurers are pushing to keep businesses with 51 to 100 workers exempt from a provision of the federal health law that they say could significantly increase their costs. Click here to read more.

IRS can’t verify qualifications of every Obamacare subsidy recipient, watchdog says

The IRS can’t weed out bogus Obamacare exchange customers and didn’t have critical information on others more than halfway through the tax filing season this year, making it impossible to figure out whether Americans were claiming too much money from the government, the tax agency’s auditor said Tuesday. Click here to read more.