by BBGAdmin | Apr 3, 2014 | Employer Issues, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform
Media outlets have been buzzing since Tuesday about the passing deadline of open enrollment and what the next phase of implementing the new health care system will bring. There is a lot of “noise” about whether the 7.1 million number of new enrollees...
by Mike Barrett | Mar 6, 2014 | Employer Issues, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform
In the coming days, HHS will announce another change in the health care roll out. This time, they are going to allow carriers to keep and issue policies that do not meet ACA guidelines. This adds to the recent pushback on the employer mandate to 50-100 employee...
by BBGAdmin | Feb 27, 2014 | Healthcare Reform
The news forums are buzzing with commentary about the new health care exchange. You don’t have to look very hard to find a wide range of opinions. For your reading pleasure, here’s a small collection of industry experts opining about what’s happening...
by Tom Barrett | Feb 26, 2014 | Employer Issues, Healthcare Reform, Providers
With the official arrival of healthcare reform, a lot has been written lately about the topic of “narrow networks.” In fact, we’ve recently written about it here Keep Your Doctor? Your Preferred Hospital? Do Your Homework Before Selecting A Plan. Employers and...
by Mike Barrett | Dec 18, 2013 | Employer Issues, General Insurance Issues, Healthcare Reform
Do you ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors between president Obama and insurance company executives? I sure do. We’ve all had to work with people we don’t like or organizations we don’t align with philosophically at some point. It happens....