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Questions about Obamacare and Tax Season?
Here's Some Info To Help... If an employee (and others in their respective tax household) had health coverage for the entire year (employer sponsored, individual plan, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.,) they’ll only need to simply check the box on line 61 of Form 1040, line...
More on the Impact of Anthem’s Data Breach
And What's Being Done to Protect Those Affected... After attending a meeting, corresponding with an Anthem representative, and monitoring their website for updates, here’s more information on who’s at risk from the recent cyber attack and what steps Anthem is taking...
Anthem’s Data Breach: What you should know and what we are doing about it.
As you likely already know, Anthem's database was recently hacked. It appears that nearly all Anthem product lines were impacted. Anthem, the country’s 2nd largest health insurance carrier, reports that member information for some 80 million individuals may have been...
Want the Key to Controlling Your Personal Health Spending?
Healthcare consumerism is good. We should all work to get better at it. Transparency tools that are provided by the carriers and by innovative up and comers like CareTrader can be quite helpful. We should take advantage of these tools and use them wisely. But, if you...
Lots of Medicare Questions From Employers and Employees This Year
...Here are the ABC’s (and Part D) For whatever reason – aging workforce, increasing costs, heightened awareness because of ACA – we’re getting lots and lots of questions from clients and their employees about Medicare this year. Way more than in years past. The vast...
Wolf in sheep’s clothing? Average rate increases on 2015 Obamacare plans
Moderate "average" rate increases for 2015 exchange plans over 2014 exchange plans have been widely reported in the press and elsewhere. Well here's another "not so fast my friend!" Many folks who purchased ACA plans in 2014 on the exchange may be surprised when they...
Trick or Treat…which do you prefer in your healthcare?
For a little Halloween fun, I've compiled a few articles that have to do with healthcare tricks and treats. All related to Obamacare, or the Affordable Healthcare Act, of course... Trick: Gov. Kasich's four Obamacare tricks by Washington Examiner Treat: Ebola:...
Stripped Down Plans without Any Hospital Benefits? “Not so fast my friend!”
In last week's Did You Know Series on Obamacare we pointed out a major glitch or loophole in the healthcare law that actually may allow large employers to avoid health-law penalties by offering stripped down plans that have no hospitalization coverage. Well, in the...
Obamacare…Did you know? #4
Here is my final post in the Obamacare...Did you know? series... Many low-income consumers who bought bronze plans with low premiums but high deductibles in order to comply with Obamacare's individual mandate are discovering they still can't afford health care....
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