Proposed Marketplace Stabilization Rule Issued for Comment 

CMS/CCIIO issued a proposed rule on Market Stabilization (CMS-9929-P) for 2018. Read more.

February 9th Question From Vince Phillips

What is the single most important Pennsylvania issue facing PA brokers now? Submit your answer.

Leg Reg Review #7 - 02/10/2017 - SPECIAL BUDGET ISSUE 

Overall, the proposed State Budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, sees General Fund spending at $32.3 billion. Read more.

DE, PA and WV Plan Sponsors Received Letter about Medical Loss Ratio

We need to know the total average employee (TAE) count for plan sponsors in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read more.

Highmark Update – St. Vincent Hospital Investment Plan

Officials from Highmark Health, Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and Saint Vincent Hospital announced a $115 million multi-phased capital investment plan for Saint Vincent that will enhance the hospital's capabilities, expand its capacity to meet the evolving health needs of the community and facilitate a patient-centered care model focused on quality, convenience and service excellence. Read more.

Reminder: Lehigh Valley Flex Blue and Alliance Flex Blue Incentive Program

In order to help grow new group business, Highmark is offering a special incentive plan that pays directly to the agent for Lehigh Valley Flex Blue or Alliance Flex Blue new group business with effective dates of January 1, 2017, through July 1, 2017. Read more.

Capital BlueCross strikes accountable care deal with Lancaster General Health

Capital BlueCross and Lancaster General Health have partnered in an effort to improve patient experiences and reduce health care costs in Central Pennsylvania. Read more.

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Judge backs health insurer in ACA payment suit

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge today backed efforts by Moda Health Plan Inc. to collect about $200 million in Affordable Care Act risk corridors program payments from the United States of America. Read more.

Tom Price’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, explained

The Senate is on track to confirm Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) as Health and Human Services secretary early Friday morning, and he is poised to hit the ground running. Read more.

Conservatives just made Obamacare repeal more difficult

The House Freedom Caucus, a conservative wing of congressional Republicans, voted Monday night to support a swift and aggressive repeal of the Affordable Care Act, complicating GOP efforts to unite around a plan to repeal and replace the healthcare law better known as Obamacare. Read more.

9 questions for the Trumpcare architects

Over the coming few weeks and months, the focus within our industry will clearly be on the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. There is a tremendous amount of energy being spent on speculating about what might happen. Read more.

Senate prepares to hear Seema Verma, Trump's ACA boss pick

The Senate Finance Committee will ramp up Affordable Care Act change talk next week, by holding a hearing on Seema Verma at 10 a.m. Thursday. Read more.

What Price’s appointment means for employers

With Tom Price now confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable Care Act is sure to undergo many changes. Read more.

Benefit groups call for suspension of health plan reporting requirements

Benefits lobbying groups in Washington are urging the White House to minimize burdensome employer reporting requirements -- especially as the Affordable Care Act undergoes changes under a new administration. Read more.

Agency ends review of Trump’s ACA mystery order

Federal regulation reviewers have stopped working on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal for saving the major medical insurance market. Read more.

Why employers might want to rethink HDHPs

When we get away from city lights, we can celebrate the stars that dot the night sky. But astronomers are quick to point to dark matter, or the stuff we don’t see. Read more.

How Obama’s last healthcare legislation is further hurting the ACA’s chances of survival

President Trump is delivering on what many had viewed as an unrealistic campaign promise: The repeal of Obamacare is right on track. Read more.

Here's how President Trump will change Obamacare

Promises made by Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act are proving to be more complicated than they sounded on the campaign trail. Read more.

Paul reportedly leaves meeting with House Republicans on ObamaCare

Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday reportedly walked out of a meeting with fellow Senate Republicans as House Speaker Paul Ryan worked to reassure skeptical colleagues about the next steps in taking on ObamaCare. Read more.

Trump administration releases ACA stabilization rules

The Trump administration on Wednesday released proposed regulations that would stabilize the Affordable Care Act’s markets, tightening the times when people can sign up for health insurance and giving insurers greater flexibility in designing plans sold through the law. Read more.

3/3 Central Pennsylvania Association of Health Underwriters Meeting Announcement

CPAHU will be holding its next CE meeting March 3, 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel on Lindle Road in Harrisburg, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Register now.

Weekly PPACA Update Conference Call

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act Law in 2010, there has been incredible change in the Individual and Group Health industry with products and in the way they are sold and paid for. A new Federal Administration is in place and even more changes will be ahead of all of us. Because of these inevitable changes and in a continuing effort to keep our agent-partners informed, we are holding weekly webinars. The webinars will serve as a place to get your questions answered, learn about compliance requirements and discuss topics and strategies that will lead to your continued success in the individual and group health insurance markets. Register once for all of the Weekly PPACA Conference Calls. Register now. Register now.

Weekly PPACA Conference Call Archives

Click here to view the archived recordings of the PPACA Conference Calls.