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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Consumer Reports reports:
“The e-commerce giant becomes the latest corporation trying to tackle the high cost of employee medical care
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Tags: employees, Employers, Harvard, health, health insurance, Health insurance exchange, IRS, Massachusetts, Village of Lakewood, West Dundee, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Wicker Park, Will, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock
Posted in Health Insurance News | Comments Off on Amazon Takes Aim at Disrupting the Healthcare Industry
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
The Hill reports:
“The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association warned against a new GOP ObamaCare bill on Wednesday, saying it would “undermine” protections for pre-existing conditions.
“The bill contains provisions that would allow states to waive key consumer protections, as well as undermine safeguards for those with pre-existing medical conditions,” the association said in a statement.
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Tags: ACA, health insurance, health plan, Hospital, Marketplace, ObamaCare, premiums, West Chicago, West Dundee, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale
Posted in Health Laws | Comments Off on Blue Cross warns GOP repeal bill ‘undermines’ pre-existing condition rules
Monday, October 31st, 2016
The Chicago Tribune reports:
“Though full details won’t be released until later this month, some information is starting to trickle out about what Illinois residents will and won’t find when they shop for health insurance on the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, bronze plan, Chicago, Glendale, Glendale Heights, Government, Hinsdale, Hoffman Estates, Individuals, Medicare, Will, Winfield
Posted in 2017 Open Enrollment | Comments Off on What will you see on Obamacare exchange for 2017? Details start to emerge
Tuesday, January 26th, 2016
According to USA Today:
“Bowing to pressure from insurers, federal officials on Tuesday tightened the conditions under which people can sign up for plans on the HealthCare.govexchange outside open enrollment.
The move by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services comes after complaints by health insurers that it was too easy for people to wait until they were sick to sign up and to drop coverage after they got treatment. Earlier Tuesday, UnitedHealth announced a 19% drop in profit and downgraded its earnings forecast citing concerns about its Obamacare enrollment and the flexibility people had to change insurance plans. (more…)
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance News, Open Enrollment | Comments Off on Feds tighten when people can enroll in Obamacare plans
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
Wednesday, September 16th, 2015
Crain’s Chicago Business reports:
“ Illinois is among a dozen states where the number of new enrollees surpassed projections for the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare. While the surge in signups lifts the number of insured people, it has also stoked worries about the future cost to taxpayers.
Illinois and Cook County eventually will have to bear 10 percent of the cost of expanding the safety-net insurance program for the poor. The federal government agreed to pay all costs for the expansion through 2016, but it will begin lowering its share in 2017.
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Posted in Affordable Care Act, Medicaid | Comments Off on Illinois Medicaid enrollment jumps under Obamacare
Monday, January 12th, 2015
Yahoo Finance reports:
“As the cost of health care rises, more and more Americans in nearly every economic class are choosing to delay medical treatment because they can’t afford it.
A new Gallup poll released Friday found that about one in three Americans say they have put off treatment for themselves or a family member because of cost—the highest rate recorded in Gallup’s history.
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, Employers, health care costs, health insurance, High deductible health plan, open enrollment, the affordable care act, Warrenville, Wasco, Wayne, West Chicago, West Dundee, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Will, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock
Posted in Family Health Insurance, Insurance Reform | Comments Off on High deductible plans have more people delaying treatment
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Accounting Today reports:
“Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen told a congressional subcommittee about the IRS’s progress on the Affordable Care Act and the impact that tax subsidies will have next tax season.
In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Wednesday, Koskinen talked about how the IRS would be processing the premium tax credit, which helps subsidize the cost of health insurance coverage for eligible taxpayers.
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Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, individual, Individual Shared Responsibility, Individuals, insurance, IRS, Marketplace, subsidies, Tax, Wheeling, Will County, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on IRS Gears up for Impact of Health Care Reform on Tax Season
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
Yahoo Finance reports:
“One provision of the Affordable Care Act that has garnered pretty universal praise is the policy change allowing young adults to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans through age 26. Previously, young adults were knocked off the plans at age 19. (Full-time students were able to stay on until age 22.) (more…)
Tags: Affordable Care Act, deductibles, enrollment, individual, Medicare, ObamaCare, the affordable care act, Wheaton, Wheeling, Wilmette, Winfield, Woodridge, Woodstock, young adults
Posted in Insurance Reform, Young Adults | Comments Off on When It’s Time to Get Off Your Parents’ Health Plan
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
AHIP Coverage reports:
“Given recent attention on the impact of health care reform on health care costs and premiums, we wanted to share the following facts:
- The impact the ACA will have on premiums will vary considerably depending on a where a person lives, what coverage they have today, and their age, gender, and health status. Simply looking at averages does not explain what these changes will mean for a particular person in a particular state. To learn more about the wide variation in impact, visit www.TimeforAffordability.org/changes.
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Tags: Costs, health care costs, health care reform, health insurance, premiums, Westchester, Wheaton, Wheeling, Wilmette, Winfield, Wood Dale, Woodridge, Woodstock
Posted in Insurance Reform | Comments Off on Quick Facts about Health Care Reform and Premiums
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