USCIS Updates Form I-9 Handbook for Employers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released an updated M-274, Handbook for Employers, which provides guidance for complying with the requirements of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Learn more.
Extended Transition to Affordable Care Act-Compliant Policies
Grandmother Transitional Relief could be extended through 12-31-18… Subject to state approval. Read more.
Highmark Individual Market Update - Short Term Blue PPO Plan Withdrawal
Effective immediately, Highmark will no longer sell the individual Short Term Blue PPO plans in the Western and Central regions of Pennsylvania. Read more.
Highmark Individual Market Update - Updated Special Enrollment Period (SEP) Form
Enrollment outside of the open enrollment period due to a qualifying life event, known as a Special Enrollment Period (SEP), is now available through the Producer Portal, and is required to be submitted via paper application (secure email, fax or mail). Read more.
Coming soon... a new self-funded plan design from Starmark!
Starmark Health Choices Self-Funded Plan Designs, a reference-based pricing plan design for small to mid-size employers. Read more.
Starmark Sales Update: A New Self-Funded Plan Design, Utilization Reports available online and more!
News for Starmark/Trustmark Life. Read more.
Capital BlueCross Anthem Data Breach
On January 29, 2015, Anthem, Inc. discovered a sophisticated cyber attack to its information technology system. Read more.
Capital BlueCross Oral Chemotherapy Medications Mandate
A new Pennsylvania state mandate requires parity between oral chemotherapy medications and intravenously administered or injected chemotherapy medications. Read more.
UPMC Special Enrollment Period (SEP)/ Qualifying Life Events (QLE) for On & Off Exchange
Details on how to enroll NEW UPMC Health Plan prospects or to process changes for existing UPMC Health Plan Members (on exchange). Read more.
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Pa. hospitals part of fire sale, with potential impact in Harrisburg, Lancaster
Tennessee-based Community Health Systems, one of country's largest for-profit hospital chains, has a major presence in Pennsylvania, where it owned 17 hospitals as of the beginning of 2017. Read more.
Reconciliation Repeal of ACA Includes Plan to Cap the Employer Exclusion
Republicans are moving forward with their plans to repeal significant portions of the ACA through the budget reconciliation process and, earlier today, a discussion draft of the reconciliation bill was leaked showing plans to cap the employer exclusion of health insurance based at 90% of the plan’s actuarial value that would be taxable for income and payroll purposes. Read more.
Attorney: Quick ACA repeal unlikely, but other changes coming
Employers might not see quick repeal of Obamacare but they can expect other favorable changes in health care in the weeks and months ahead, according to labor and employment attorney Eric N. Athey. Read more.
HHS promised full risk corridors payments, insurers say
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly told health insurers that it was legally required to make full Affordable Care Act risk corridors program payments, a group of nonprofit health insurers says. Read more.
Obamacare repeal may birth a new retirement account
Our daily roundup of retirement news your clients may be thinking about. Read more.
Repeal of Health Law Faces Obstacles in House, Not Just in Senate
Ever since Republicans got down to the business of repealing the Affordable Care Act, the Senate has been singled out as the likely problem. Read more.
Liberal Vermont tests the waters on GOP health care overhaul
Tiny — and very blue — Vermont could be at the leading edge of the health reforms envisioned by the Trump administration and a Republican Congress. Read more.
Trump will meet with governors worried about Medicaid funding
As congressional Republicans prepare to repeal and replace Obamacare, worried governors from across the country are scheduled to meet Monday with President Donald Trump to discuss healthcare reform and other issues. Read more.
CIAB urges HHS to establish a national benchmark health plan
In an open letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, Ken A. Crerar, president of the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, has requested that the economic burden of the Affordable Care Act be reduced by establishing a national benchmark health plan in lieu of current costly state-enhanced benchmark plans. Read more.
Exclusive: Leaked GOP Obamacare replacement shrinks subsidies, Medicaid expansion
The replacement would be paid for by limiting tax breaks on generous health plans people get at work. Read more.
9 trends driving employee benefits in Q2 and beyond
As the employee benefits industry moves into the second quarter of 2017, it becomes increasingly clear that there is an atmosphere of unpredictability. Read more.
3/3 CPAHU CE Meeting | The New World of Health Care & HRA's
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
*Due to a previous commitment today's Weekly PPACA Conference call has been pre-recorded for your convenience, watch it online now.
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.
