Originally posted to LifeHealthProFEB 10, 2015 | BY ALLISON BELL The big health insurers have reported a full year of 2014 results, and they and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) public exchanges are nearly done with the second annual open enrollment period. More than 1 million Americans have had PPACA exchange qualified … Read more
Anthem is extending the Open Enrollment deadline to December 31, 2014 for consumers who want to apply for their Individual plans sold off the exchange with a January 1, 2015 effective date. You will need to use Anthem’s paper application to help clients enroll, which can be downloaded via the Individual Supplies link in the Sales & Training section … Read more
Health insurers will be unusually generous this holiday season toward those who purchased coverage via the public exchanges. As a group, they will give policyholders extra time to make their first premium payments in an effort to ease any stress consumers may have about paying for the insurance they just signed up for. That’s what trade … Read more
Although the Dec. 15 enrollment deadline for health coverage through the public exchange system has barely passed, tea leaf readers are releasing forecasts about how many Americans will purchase coverage in 2015 based on the activity. Among them: consulting firm Avalere Health, which has been crunching data related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act … Read more
The managers of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) public exchange programs are facing a tough new challenge: Figuring out how the exchange programs will earn their keep. PPACA calls for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide generous startup funding for the state-based exchanges, but only for one year. … Read more
In many ways, 2014 was a pivotal year for PPACA, as most major reforms came online in the past 11 months. Among the facets implemented were the Health Insurance Tax, subsidies, state and federal exchanges, minimum standards, health care co-ops, Medicaid expansion and new rules for wellness programs, minimum waiting periods and several market reforms. … Read more
Spending on health care in the United States grew in 2013 at the lowest rate since the federal government began tracking it in 1960, the Obama administration said Wednesday. It was the fifth straight year of exceptionally small increases in the closely watched indicator. The data defied critics who had said such slow growth would not continue for … Read more
More PPACA group health provisions are supposed to begin taking effect in 2015. The current schedule calls for a transitional version of the PPACA “play or pay” employer coverage mandate to apply to employers with 100 or more full-time employers, and to some employers with 50 to 99 employees. Employers will have to keep track of which employees … Read more
Between soaring health care costs, unknown implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Ebola, the country is experiencing no shortage of health care issues. But Gallup aimed to dig deeper into the minds of Americans and find out what they considered to be the country’s “most urgent health problem.” This year’s results are … Read more
Q1: My employer offers employees cash to reimburse the purchase of an individual market policy. Does this arrangement comply with the market reforms? No. If the employer uses an arrangement that provides cash reimbursement for the purchase of an individual market policy, the employer’s payment arrangement is part of a plan, fund, or other arrangement … Read more
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