5 Quick Facts About COBRA
Understanding your responsibilities when it comes to COBRA compliance is the best way to prevent expensive mistakes. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) is a federal law that requires certain-sized employers with group health plans to offer employees, their spouses, and their dependents a temporary continuation of health coverage if they lose coverage due to certain specified events. Learn more.
MLR: An existential threat to benefit brokers
The Medical Loss Ratio provision of the ACA has put benefit brokers in a dangerous place. Read more.
Health Care Signups Exceed Hopes, With 4 Million Newcomers to Federal Marketplace
About 12.7 million people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act or had their coverage automatically renewed in the third annual open enrollment season, the Obama administration said Thursday. Read more.
Uninsured present tough test for ObamaCare
ObamaCare faces a tougher path ahead in enrolling the roughly 30 million people who remain uninsured, despite the record gains already made. Read more.
Dauphin County-based accountable care organization drops new payment model
A Dauphin County-based accountable care organization announced on Monday that it would forgo participation in a new payment model for treating patients under Medicare. Read more.
16 New Group Health Tools for the New Year
Unbeatable new tools for group health business. When you write your group health and employee benefits business with URL you gain access to the most comprehensive benefits and rewards available. Read more.
Highmark Agency Action Alert - Feb. 10, 2016
This week's Agency Action Alert covers the following topics: 1095-B forms to be mailed to policy holders, UPMC continuation of care letters mailed to members, ACA members asked to select home delivery for maintenance medications, Free identity protection services for Highmark direct-pay members, Encourage your clients to "Meet Dr. Right". Read more.
2016 Product Information
Find all the current product information on our website. 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. Register once and you'll be signed up for all of the 2016 Weekly PPACA Conference Calls. Register now.
Weekly PPACA Conference Call Archives
Click here to view the archived recordings of the PPACA Conference Calls.