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Monday, May 20th, 2019
CNN Politics reports:
“Washington may be obsessed with enacting “Medicare for All” or repealing Obamacare, but Americans have other priorities.
They want Congress to prioritize reducing health care costs and protecting those with pre-existing conditions, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Wednesday.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders, health care costs, health care reform, health insurance, health insurance coverage, Marketplace, Massachusetts, Maywood, McCullen Lake, McHenry, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, ObamaCare, Supreme Court, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Most Americans want lower health care costs, not ‘Medicare for All’ or Obamacare repeal
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Yahoo News reports:
“It’s even clearer now how much the GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will change health insurance for just about everyone.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office Monday released its estimates of the cost and impact of the House Republican plan known as the American Health Care Act. Chief among its findings is that the number of people without health insurance would increase by 14 million in 2018. By 2026, that figure would hit 24 million.
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Tags: affordable care, Affordable Care Act, Government, health insurance, health savings account, medicaid coverage, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Navigator, North West Suburbs, Northern Illinois, subsidies, the affordable care act
Posted in Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Insured Through Your Job? Medicaid? The ACA? Here’s What Could Change For You
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
According to The CT Mirror:
“Even if you don’t get your health insurance through Obamacare, you’re likely to get something related to the health law in the mail in the coming weeks: A new tax form.
 The 1095-A form exchange customers will receive. Others will get different versions, depending on the source of their health care coverage. Known as Form 1095, it’s part of the way the federal government verifies whether people are complying with the mandate that requires nearly all U.S. residents to have health care coverage. This year is the first time most people will be getting those forms, and officials are anticipating a fair amount of confusion. In part, that’s because what you need to do with that form depends on the type of coverage you had.
Here’s what you need to know. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News, Heath Care Costs | Comments Off on Coming soon to your mailbox: An Obamacare tax form
Monday, January 11th, 2016
California Healthline Reports:
“On Friday, CMS released a proposed rule that would require minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, Modern Healthcare reports.
Proposed Rule’s Network Standards
Under the rule, states would be required to implement CMS-approved quantitative measures to ensure that individuals with exchange plans have adequate access to health care providers. States could either:
- Adopt default network adequacy standards set by CMS; or
- Draft their own network adequacy standards and submit them for HHS approval.
Such standards could measure a plan’s network adequacy based on policyholders’ maximum travel distances and times to access providers. According to CMS, minimum adequacy standards for the plans will be determined at a later date. HHS would then notify insurers of the standards in each state (Herman/Dickson, Modern Healthcare, 11/20). (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News, Open Enrollment | Comments Off on CMS Proposes Health Insurance Exchange Changes for 2017
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
Yahoo Finance reports:
” From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive care.
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Tags: Health and Human Services, health care law, insurance, insurance plan, McHenery, McHenry, McHenry County, Medicaid, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, preventive services
Posted in Health Reform | Comments Off on Feds close insurance loopholes on preventive care
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Benefits Pro reports:
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) basic preventive services package famous by putting a controversial mandate — for “free” birth control benefits — in the package.
Consumer groups say patients are having trouble using the other, less controversial benefits in the package, such as access to checkups, vaccinations and some cancer screenings.
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Tags: Health and Human Services, health plan, Maywood, McHenery, McHenry, McHenry County, medicaid programs, Medigap, Mental Health, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Patient Protection, requirements
Posted in Requirements | Comments Off on PPACA preventive services not so free
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Virginia Health Innovation Network reports:
“More than 10 million people sought help outside of brokerages and agencies during the Affordable Care Acts first open-enrollment period, but benefit adviser help was still considered by many to be most valuable.
SourceMedia’s Partner Insights program enables marketers to deliver relevant content and insights directly to the Employee Benefit News audience via SourceMedia’s digital media platforms. Partner Insights content is produced by the marketer. An estimated 10.6 million people nationally received personal help from navigators and assisters during the ACAs first open enrollment period, according to a new Kaiser Family foundation survey of navigators and assister programs. The survey estimates that the 4,400 assister programs operating nationally had an estimated 28,000 full-time staff and volunteers, suggesting each assister would have helped more than 370 people on average during the six-month open enrollment period that ran from Oct. 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.
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Tags: Broker, doctors, enroll, exchange, health insurance, health plan, IRS, Marketplace, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Mr. Obama, Navigator, open enrollment, the affordable care act
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on More than 10 million sought ACA enrollment help outside of brokers
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Business Insurance reports:
“Employers can impose a one-month orientation period before a 90-day waiting period starts to either offer qualifying employees group health insurance or face a penalty, according to the latest federal guidance on complying with the health care reform law. The rules, issued last month by the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury, said employer orientation periods are “commonplace” for the estimated 5.1 million new employees per year and are reasonable as long as they are short.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Health and Human Services, health care reform, Inverness, Itasca, Johnsburg, Kane, Kane County, Kaneville, Kendall, Kendall County, Montgomery, Mooseheart, state health insurance
Posted in Health Reform | Comments Off on Orientation and waiting periods for coverage are latest guidance
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Illinois on Friday awarded marketing and public relations firm Fleishman Hillard a $35 million contract to market and promote the state’s Health Insurance Marketplace, an online exchange where individuals and small businesses can compare and purchase private health insurance beginning Oct. 1.
Fleishman Hillard, along with several partners, will lead a massive multimedia outreach and advertising campaign to promote enrollment in the state-based insurance exchange, a key aspect of the Affordable Care Act.
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Tags: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, enrollment, exchange, health insurance marketplace, Montgomery, Mooseheart, Naperville, North Barrington, North West Suburbs, Northern Illinois, Northlake, Northwest Suburbs
Posted in Exchange, Illinois | Comments Off on Fleishman-Hillard wins contract to market Illinois health exchange
Monday, June 17th, 2013
Health Affairs reports:
“On May 31, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule amending its earlier regulations governing the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). The implementing agencies published a spate of proposed rules and amendments in late 2012 and early 2013, and are now beginning to finalize these, including the workplace wellness rule released on May 29 and the SHOP final rule released on May 31. HHS also released simplified forms for employers and employees to use to apply for SHOP coverage.
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Tags: Chicago, Chicagoland, Elgin, Fox Valley, health insurance, health insurance marketplace, Itasca, Johnsburg, Marketplace, Montgomery, Naperville, Navigator, North West Suburbs, Northern Illinois, Northwest Suburbs, requirements, Rolling Meadows, Schiller Park, SHOP, timeline, workplace
Posted in Health Reform | Comments Off on Implementing Health Reform: Small Business Health Insurance Marketplace
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