January 13, 2012
FMLA Refresher Course – are you in compliance? The Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) has been in effect for nearly 20 years now, but if you don’t deal with it often, it can be tricky and difficult to understand, so let’s take a tour of the key points. FMLA applies to all employers [...]
May 9, 2011
Obama Signs 1099 Repeal Bill President Barack Obama has signed the first rollback of last year’s healthcare law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax-reporting requirement extremely unpopular with businesses. The move marked the first successful effort to repeal part of the national healthcare overhaul. Last week, then Senate voted 87-12 to repeal the 1099 [...]
February 1, 2011
Health Care Reform & Unintended Consequences If you are looking for individual medical coverage for your family which includes children under the age of 19, you may have been frustrated to find that you can not enroll them outside of the special “open enrollment periods” which will occur twice a year. If you miss these [...]
January 24, 2011
New 2011 open-enrollment periods for children OLYMPIA, Wash. – The individual health insurance market will have two special open-enrollment periods for children this year. Parents who want to add their children to their individual health plans or buy child-only plans can do so from March 15-April 30, 2011 and from Sept. 15-Oct. 31, 2011. Insurance [...]
October 22, 2010
Regence responds to the “Cease and Desist” order issued by Washington Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler to stop enrolling children under the age of 19 outside of open enrollment period. Children can once again be enrolled using the Standard Health Questionnaire for effective dates of November or December 1st. In addition, the annual open enrollment period [...]
October 19, 2010
Individual Market Changes for Children Under 19 On September 27, 2010, Regence Blue Shield announced that they will no longer sell individual policies to applicants under the age of 19. In addition, individual policy subscribers will NOT be able to enroll a child under the age of 19 outside of an annual open enrollment period [...]
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October 15, 2010
Registration is now open for our series of informational seminars on the changes to Regence Blue Shield individual plans and Medicare changes for 2010. Click here to find out more and register today.
August 12, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission and State Insurance Commissioners Pursue Sellers of Fake Insurance Plans. In this environment of health care reform, rising costs and shrinking budgets, it is easy to be lured by the promise of an extremely affordable health plan. Unfortunately, many of these plans are fake, and the only party benefiting is [...]
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July 31, 2010
Healthcare Reform…first impacts By now, most everyone is aware that Healthcare Reform was signed into ef‐ fect back on March 23, 2010 in the form of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). We are just beginning to feel the first effects of this new law. Changes that have already occurred which may impact [...]
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July 30, 2010
The rate renewal previously announced for Regence Blue Shield individual plans has been delayed to October 1, 2010 and is still pending review by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. We will notify you when more information becomes available
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