CPAHU Weekly Legislative Update

Pennsylvania collected $3.8 billion in General Fund revenue in April. The tax revenue collected exceeded estimate by $33.3 million, which was 0.9 percent above what was anticipated. Read more.

UPMC Health Plan's Network is Expanding!

Effective July 1, 2018, the UPMC Health Plan premium network will expand across northeastern Pennsylvania. Read more.

Highmark Agency Action Alerts and Small Group Updates

This week's Agency Action Alert features the following topics: Highmark Partners with Sharecare for Highly Personalized Digital Health Experience, New Fully-Insured Group Premium Bill Enhancement, Register Now! Highmark Blue Edge Vision and Dental: Better Together Webinar, and Special Bonus Offer for Small Groups in Central PA. Read more.

Aetna | Keep What You Have (KWYH) Update

After careful consideration, we will no longer renew Aetna and Coventry transitional relief plans (also known as Keep What You Have - KWYH - plans) beginning September 1, 2018. Read more.

Connect with Capital, May 2018, vol 1

What's Inside: Blue Distinction Total Care Achieves Results, Now Available: Interactive HRA Administration Applications, New Group Approval Letter: Don't Be Late!, BlueCross Dental and BlueCross Vision Rate Cards, Flip That, Reverse It: IRS Reinstates Previous HSA Maximum. Read more.

White House Promotes “America First” Prescription Drug Plan

Earlier this afternoon in an event in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Alex Azar unveiled their plan for reducing the price of prescription drugs. Read more.

President Trump Asks Congress for $7 Billion in Cuts to Children’s Healthcare

On Tuesday, the White House released a proposal to rescind $15.4 billion in federal spending, including nearly $7 billion in cuts to the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Read more.

House Holds Hearing on Medicare Advantage Plan Operations

On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee held a hearing on the Medicare Advantage program’s plan operations, quality measurements and challenges faced by emerging insurers. Read more.

This is what a death spiral looks like

Three states have announced preliminary 2019 premium-rate requests for Obamacare individual-market policies, and the numbers don’t look good. Read more.

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980

The United States devotes a lot more of its economic resources to health care than any other nation, and yet its health care outcomes aren’t better for it. Read more.

Trump administration won't approve lifetime limits on Medicaid

The Trump administration will not approve state requests to impose lifetime limits on Medicaid coverage, breaking with conservatives who have pushed for the strict limitation. Read more.

Murphy orders state to take over health exchange management

New Jersey will manage the health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act during the 2019 health insurance enrollment period. Read more.

Trump’s Plan for Cheaper Health Insurance Could Have Hidden Costs

President Trump’s plan to expand access to skimpy short-term health insurance policies, as an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, would affect more people and cost the government more money than the administration estimated, an independent federal study says. Read more.

5/23 Exciting News for Highmark's 3rd & 4th Quarter

Join us for a webinar on May 23rd at 2pm with special guests Kareem Corbin (Vice President of Sales & Client Management, Small Group Market) and Kerri McKeown (Director of Sales and Client Management) with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, to learn about the exciting news from Highmark coming in 3rd and 4th quarters. Register now.

Health Care Reform Webinar

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.

Group Health: New Business Specialist

URL has an immediate opening for a Group Health New Business Specialist in our expanding Health Plan Options department. If you’d like to be part of our team of high performance people, or know someone who does, follow and share the link below to learn more and apply today! Learn more and apply.