Healthcare costs
Ohio Employers Paying for Employees Individual and Family Health Insurance Policies
Many employers in Ohio do not realize that they have the option to get individual health insurance and replace there expensive small group health policies. Whether your company is in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton or Cleveland this information will apply. Let’s look at the implications and understand why whether individual or a small group plan is your […]
Upcoming Health Care Reform Changes Affect Affordable Health Insurance Quotes- Effective September 23, 2010
Wellpoint Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield just announced (and all of the other health insurance carriers will be announing) that due to the new changes resulting from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that they will be required to update their plans and rates that will be effective September 23. Essentially, all health insurance […]
Anthem Ohio Individual Health Insurance Open Enrollment Reform… What does it all mean?
anthem-2010-open-enrollment-rates-brochure-and-application.pdf
After speaking to a current group health insurance client of mine, I realized that although the current health insurance system is changing daily, there is still not a true understanding of how it effects each person individually. Unfortunately as we see new legislation, the changes may not be apparent or even helpful in many situations. In […]
Ohio’s Individual Market Open Enrollment Begins
Ohio’s newly revised open enrollment program for uninsurable Ohioans is now in effect. The program, which requires all insurers in Ohio’s individual and non-employer group market to participate, was one of the health care reform measures included in Ohio’s recently enacted biennial budget. Below is a summary of the program’s requirements:
Individual Market Open Enrollment for […]
One Major Step to Fixing our Health Insurance System
Our current health insurance and health care system in general is broken. There is not one end all be all solution to the problem, but there is one major change that I believe moves us in the right direction. That is taking the employer out of the health insurance equation. Did you know that companies […]
Healthcare Cost Estimator
Due to the current structure of our healthinsurance system it is very difficult to know what the actual and health insurance carrier treatment costs are for different procedures. Here is a great website that goes over this information treatment by treatment:
http://www1.subimo.com/hca/app/anthemnatl/View/TreatmentCostAdvisor/FullList?division
I have found it extremely helpful in regards to gaining a better understanding of how my […]
