Aetna Funding Advantage Springboard Marketplace® Training Sessions

Ready to get started with Aetna Funding Advantage (AFA) on Springboard Marketplace? Our training sessions can help. Check out the details on our mini and detailed training sessions. Read more.

Springboard Frequently Asked Questions

Check out some important questions and answers about Springboard Marketplace® – our benefits enrollment and plan administration platform for Aetna Funding Advantage (AFA). Read more.

Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Resources

As you know, open enrollment has experienced some changes this year. Read more.

Leg Reg Review #36 - 11/20/2017

On November 13, the PA Senate passed two bills which change Pennsylvania insurance law to allow insurance companies and insurance producers to offer inducements and rebates to consumers. Read more.

Hard to believe: Some consumers find free health insurance

Consumers are getting the word that taxpayer-subsidized health plans are widely available for next year for no monthly premium or little cost, and marketing companies say they're starting to see an impact on sign-ups. Read more.

Obamacare mandate repeal may not deliver predicted blow

Repealing Obamacare's individual mandate might not be the devastating blow to health insurance markets that supporters of the law fear. Read more.

UPMC Pinnacle opens primary-care practice in downtown Harrisburg

UPMC Pinnacle's new Strawberry Square FamilyCare office, a primary-care practice, opened today for patients in downtown Harrisburg.  Read more.

IRS guidelines on QSEHRAs will require ‘a huge amount of administration’

The Internal Revenue Service has issued lengthy rules and guidance for small companies that offer health reimbursement plans in lieu of insurance, providing needed clarity, but also new and potentially complicated administrative burdens.  Read more.

ACA Employer Mandate Penalties are Coming

The IRS will be sending enforcement notices by December 2017 to applicable large employers (ALEs) on what they owe for penalties under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility mandate for 2015 tax year filings.  Read more.

White House budget director open to removing Obamacare mandate repeal from tax overhaul bill

President Trump’s budget director said Sunday that the White House is open to removing a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate from the GOP legislation to overhaul the nation’s tax laws if it becomes an hindrance to the bill’s passage. Read more.

Sen. Thune: Individual mandate fine falls mainly on people making under $50,000

Senate Republicans’ surprise move to repeal the requirement to have health insurance into their tax reform bill revealed numbers that few people had noted before. (The mandate says that everyone must have coverage or face a fine.)  Read more.

Millions of kids may lose health insurance over missed deadline by Congress

The diagnosis was dire: Roland Williams, a St. Louis boy with a megawatt smile and a penchant for painting, had an extremely rare form of lung cancer, oncologists told his mother in May 2016.  Read more.

UPMC Pinnacle, Highmark in spat over Highmark ACA plan

Highmark is not including most UPMC Pinnacle providers in the individual health plan it is selling on the Obamacare marketplace, a change that UPMC Pinnacle said in a news release is causing confusion and frustration among some of its patients.  Read more.

1/24 The Advantages of Reference Based Pricing

With the ever-increasing group health rates, many employers are faced with difficult decisions on how to maintain quality coverage without going broke. Read more.

Health Care Reform Webinar

There will be no Health Care Reform webinar on November 23, 2017. Happy Thanksgiving!

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.