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Capital BlueCross Large Group Standard Product Portfolio Update Groups that want to offer dental and or vision products must choose from the available products in order to receive the rate reduction (see attachment C within Bulletin for list). Read more. Highmark Agency Action Alert - Jan. 13, 2016 Information about the individual market, Highmark health, technology updates and more. Read more. 2016 Product Information Find all the current product information on our website. Read more.
A broker’s role is ‘not about pricing anymore’ There will be plenty of headaches as employers go through the first year of the Affordable Care Act reporting requirements. But there is also opportunity for employee benefit brokers. Read more. Federal Employment Law Update – December 2015 On December 28, 2015, the IRS released Notice 2016-4 to extend due dates for the 2015 information reporting required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read more. Could state waivers undo the ACA’s employer mandate? A provision of the Affordable Care Act allows states, beginning in January 2017, to ask the federal government to waive almost every major coverage requirement of the ACA, including benefit package stipulations and the individual and employer mandates. Read more. ACA compliance: What does the future hold? The Affordable Care Act’s reporting requirements are challenging in the extreme. Carriers and employers, and their vendors, service providers and strategic partners, have scrambled up a steep learning curve. Read more. Obama Vetoes Bill to Repeal Health Law and End Planned Parenthood Funding President Obama vetoed legislation Friday that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act and stripped all federal funds from Planned Parenthood, writing in his veto message that the measure would “reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America.” Read more. Missed opportunities abound in HSA usage Just 5% of employees contribute the maximum allowable amount to their health savings accounts and only 4% invest any portion of their balance, suggests an analysis of more than 400,000 records from one of the nation’s largest HSA administrators. Read more. Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Insurance Clint Murphy let the deadline for getting health insurance by the new year pass without a second thought. 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.
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