On March 5, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a bulletin providing for a two-year extension that would allow insurers to renew existing non-grandfathered policies that do not comply with all requirements of the Affordable Care Act (hereinafter “transitional policies”).
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Healthcare markets have one month to live
In some states, America’s health insurance market for individuals and families has one maybe two months to go before it collapses.
Understanding How Health Insurance Coverage Affects Uber Drivers and Passengers
While UBER is a brilliant business model, there is a major insurance glitch, which is most personal automobile policies specifically exclude the use of the personal automobile for commercial purposes: (i.e. “operating a public or livery conveyance”). Therefore, TNC ridesharing Drivers are not covered by their own personal automobile policies while driving for hire. Therefore, […]
Healthcare.gov Call Center Now Open
NAHU has announced that support from the Healthcare.gov Agent Broker Call Center is now fully operational Interested parties can start seeking assistance from the call center starting immediately.
ISAHU Issues Statement on SCOTUS ACA Ruling
The Supreme Court of the United States has just released their opinion in the King v. Burwell case concerning a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and ruled that subsidies will continue to be available in all states, not just those with state-based exchanges. The vote was 6-3.
Indiana wins approval of plan to cover 350,000 uninsured
Indiana wins federal approval to expand HIP, market-based health care options.
Changes to businesses coming under ACA on January 1
Come January 1 all businesses will now be required to provide health insurance to all of their employees and new penalties from the IRS can be subjected.
Confusing ACA open enrollment period starts tomorrow
“The problem with that is if they just do that automatically they are going to get the same subsidy as last year,” explained Patton. “All 50 of them will get a large subsidy due to inflation and some other things, but all of them are going to have to go back to the marketplace to […]
Huge NAHU win on Federal Exchange
CMS is going to be able to implement a find an agent feature on healthcare.gov not only for the federal SHOP exchange, but also in the INDIVIDUAL market FFM for all consumers.
Anthem opts to cancel 30,000 Indiana health plans
Anthem is dropping 30,000 Indiana health insurance plans in advance of a 2016 requirement they be dropped anyway.
