by Tom Barrett | Mar 28, 2019 | Employer Issues, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, National News, Uncategorized
Buried far below the most recent headlines related to eliminating the ACA, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) once again announced that employers in the small group market still enrolled in Transitional Relief Plans (pre-ACA) may keep their existing policies...
by Tom Barrett | Mar 8, 2019 | Employer Issues, General Health, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Issues, Insurance, Uncategorized, Video
…… that may be of interest only to me. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase Finally Has a Name It only took eight months. The new nonprofit healthcare company founded by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase finally has a name. It will officially be...
by Tom Barrett | Sep 18, 2018 | Employer Issues, General Health, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Issues, Insurance, National News
On June 19th the Department of Labor released final regs that offer new options for associations to sponsor health plans for their members. There’s no clear picture yet of what will emerge out of the new “Association Health Plan” (AHP) regs and how the...
by Tom Barrett | Apr 20, 2018 | Employer Issues, General Health, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, National News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) recently announced that employers in the small group market that are currently still enrolled in Transitional Relief Plans (also known alternatively as Keep Your Plan, Grandmothered Plan, Pre-ACA Plan, etc.,) may keep their...
by Tom Barrett | Apr 10, 2018 | Employer Issues, General Health, General Insurance Issues, Health Policy, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare Issues, Healthcare Reform, Insurance, National News, Uncategorized
In a CMS press release the Trump Administration announced yesterday, as expected, that beginning in 2019 individual states will have more control and greater flexibility in regulating the individual health insurance market and the Obamacare Marketplace (aka the...
