Coming Soon: The Best Employer Group Shopping Experience

Introducing URL's new Employer Marketplace, available to you by the end of summer! Using our streamlined system you can offer your employer groups the coverage to meet their needs, from core medical insurance to voluntary benefits. Click here to read more.

UPMC Producer Update 7/21/2015 - Producer Incentive- Summer/Fall Triple Play

Now is the time to concentrate on getting those 51-100 employer groups in the door before 2016 with the UPMC Health Plan Triple Play and offer your clients a two year rate guarantee. Click here to read more.

The new business process just got easier

Take a look at the new business underwriting checklist for Aetna small groups with 50 or fewer employees. Since you saw it last, it's been revised and updated. We've simplified our requirements and created helpful tips with you in mind. Click here to read more.

Highmark Updates | Agency Action Alert - July 23, 2015

This week's Agency Action Alert covers the following topics: HSAs to remain with Highmark if members leave their QHDHPs, New document upload process for members who do not pass the HSA security check, New HRA, FSA debit cards to be distributed to members. Click here to read more.

Capital BlueCross Change to Small Group PPACA Renewal Approach

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) department announced that its November 2013 transitional guidance was extended for up to two years. Click here to read more.

Webinars added: FFM registration and training for agents and brokers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) presents a webinar for agents and brokers focused on Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM) plan year 2016 registration and training. Click here to read more.

Weekly PPACA Update Conference Call

July 30th PPACA Update Conference Call is cancelled.

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.

Questionable Obamacare claims cost taxpayers $2 billion

More than 700,000 Obamacare customers claimed tax credits for buying health care but didn’t bother to file their taxes, potentially jilting the government out of $2 billion in bogus payments, the Senate’s senior lawmaker said Monday. Click here to read more.

Employers divided on Aetna, Humana merger

The consolidation of two health insurer giants has divided employers into two camps. Click here to read more.

More medical bills paid, but problems persist

Two Urban Institute reports funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that 9.4 million fewer families struggled to pay medical bills in early 2015 than just before the rollout of public exchanges and Medicaid expansion in 2013. Click here to read more.