Colonial Life | Focus on Voluntary Benefits to Win Cash!
Voluntary Benefits are the perfect way to JUMP START your 4th quarter! Read More.
Highmark East Individual Market Update
ACA Individual Market Commission Changes. Read more.
Highmark Central PA Individual Market Update
ACA Individual Market Commission Changes. Read more.
Highmark West Individual Market Update
ACA Individual Market Commission Changes. Read more.
Highmark | 2019 Individual U65 Highmark Product-specific Training
Individual U65 Product training is immediately available to agents through Litmos. Read more.
Highmark | Small Group Update: Notification Regarding December Renewal Letters
A marketing brochure from another Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Plan was inadvertently added to renewal packets for approximately 2,600 clients throughout Pennsylvania. Read more.
Connect with Capital, October 2018, vol. 1
What's Inside: Current Census Template is Required | 2019 Group Products Portfolio Now Available | And Much More... Read more.
Notification Regarding December Renewal Letters
A marketing brochure from another Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Plan was inadvertently added to renewal packets for approximately 2,600 clients throughout Pennsylvania. Read more.
IRS Testing is Due Now
As your plan year ends, it's time to start your nondiscrimination testing (NDT) to ensure your plans are compliant. Read more.
Premiums for Most Popular Type of Obamacare Plan Will Drop Next Year
Prices for the most popular type of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act will drop slightly next year in the federal marketplace, after several years of rapid increases, the Trump administration said on Thursday. Read more.
Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here's A Cheat Sheet
Health care is complicated. Shopping for an individual health plan just got even more so, with President Donald Trump’s decision last month to block $7 billion in Affordable Care Act subsidies. Read more.
CMS Details Additional Process for Providing Relief for Consumers from Individual Mandate
CMS Details Additional Process for Providing Relief for Consumers from Individual Mandate. Read more.
NAHU | President Trump Signs Prescription Drug Gag Clause Legislation
On Wednesday, President Trump signed into law S. 2553, the Know the Lowest Price Act, and S. 2554, the Patient Right to Know Drug Price Act. Read more.
Vulnerable Republicans throw ‘Hail Mary’ on pre-existing conditions
Dozens of vulnerable House Republicans have recently signed on to bills or resolutions in support of pre-existing conditions protections, part of an eleventh-hour attempt to demonstrate their affinity for one of ObamaCare’s most popular provisions. Read more.
Individual Mandate Now Gone, G.O.P. Targets the One for Employers
Having wiped out the requirement for people to have health insurance, Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a new target. Read more.
Frustrated with health insurance costs, some turn to religious plans: 'For us it's been a godsend' - Chicago Tribune
Sarah Barazza doesn’t have health insurance, but money was the last thing on her mind as she and her 15-month-old son raced to the hospital in an ambulance last year. Read more.
Health care market competition tied to lower costs
The study’s results suggest that health care spending could be reduced by policies aimed at steering privately insured patients to lower-priced providers. Read more.
Everything you need to know about two new drug cost information bills
Federal law will soon ban drug cost 'gag clauses' in commercial and Medicare drug plans. Read more.
North Charleston group of Obamacare ‘navigators’ will be SC’s 1st nonprofit insurer
After contending with President Donald Trump’s decision to cut its federal funding, a North Charleston agency that offers free help to sign up for health insurance coverage is trying a new approach. Read more.
Trump administration plans to require drug companies to include prices in ads
Drug companies would be required to list prices in advertisements under a Trump administration proposal released Monday. Read more.
Insurer Anthem will pay record $16M for massive data breach
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s second-largest health insurer has agreed to pay the government a record $16 million to settle potential privacy violations in the biggest known health care hack in U.S. history. Read more.
ACA Compliance: A Tale of Two IRS Measurement Methods
If you or someone you know has been hit with Letter 226J, you know that it is no laughing matter. Read more.
Everything you need to know about two new drug cost information bills
Federal law will soon ban drug cost 'gag clauses' in commercial and Medicare drug plans. Read more.
UPMC Health Plan Producer Fall Kickoff 2018 Cancellation!
Please be advised that the UPMC Health Plan Fall Kickoff meeting scheduled for November 9, 2018, has been cancelled, and will be re-scheduled at a later time. Read more.
Health Care Reform Webinar October 19th -9am
Since the passage of the ACA in 2010 and the recent passage of the AHCA through the House and the failed Senate votes on the BCRA and the HCFA (Skinny Repeal), it's important to stay informed so you can better serve your clients in the group health and under 65 individual markets. The weekly Health Care Reform Webinars are your resource to stay close to the proposed law and to ask questions that may be important to your livelihood and to your clients. Join us each week to learn more and get your questions answered. Register now.
Health Care Reform Webinar Archives
Click here to view the archived videos of the Health Care Reform Webinars.
