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Nearly half of all health plan members in the group and individual markets nationwide say they are interested in using a state exchange to purchase health insurance, according to a new survey by J.D. Power and Associates.
Were starting your week with three important facts, developments or conversations from recent and upcoming events. This week, well look at why uninsured Americans hospital bills are so high, more official steps forward by HHS on public exchanges and HHS goals for tech improvements in 2013.
Ignorance will not be bliss come October when state and federal exchanges begin enrolling individuals and small-employer groups.
Enlist your broker as a partner toe help you stay on top of health care reform rules and regulations, writes Contributing Editor Laurie Miller.
The $64,000 question on state and federally managed health exchanges will be "what is the broker compensation?" Reliance on state and/or federal government to control your compensation is an uncontrollable factor that could lead to the demise of many brokers whose sole business is groups under 50 lives.
Only 6% of those surveyed by Aon Hewitt plan to exit employer-sponsored health care entirely, but around 28% are eyeing the next three to five years for a move to a private health care exchange.
A glass-half-full crowd of benefits brokers and agents that could be the theme of this years National Association of Health Underwriters Capitol Conference. The organization concluded its three day lobbying stint Wednesday with a morning of discussion panels on health reform, remarks from a Republican congresswoman, a talk with a representative from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and an address from NAHUs president.
Buck Consultants announced this week that it would be starting a private health care exchange while Liazon unveiled a new web partnership to support its own.
Lawmakers, nonprofit groups address gathering of benefit advisers to discuss brokers role in health care reform.
The answer to that question is still fuzzy. Thats because while the Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed to Employee Benefit News that health reimbursement arrangements and health savings accounts will be offered on the public exchanges, the organization still hasnt released the details and regulations surrounding these accounts.
Even companies who have no interest in getting involved with a public health care exchange for active employees might help steer their pre-65 retirees toward the marketplace, experts with Fidelity Investments said Thursday.
We are making progress, we are on track and we will be ready, Gary Cohen, director of the Department of Health and Human Services consumer information division, told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing in Washington.
The federal government has given approval to launch nonprofit, member-run co-ops in 24 states. The CEO of one of these co-ops offered insight into what such organizations will need to survive.
Most employers still havent calculated their costs under the health care reform act, though a majority plan on playing rather than paying, according to a new survey by the Willis Human Capital Practice.
In a Midwest Business Group on Health webinar, representatives from three private health insurance exchanges offered insight into what employers, employees and the overall market can gain from the emerging model.
In his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama said that already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs. Is it? EBN asked one health care expert to help fact-check the claim.
The number of Americans projected to gain insurance from the U.S. health care law is eroding, by at least 5 million people, as the Obama administration struggles to implement the $1.3 trillion overhaul amid Republican opposition.
As many as 8 million people will lose health care plans now offered through their employers, the Congressional Budget Office now estimates, up from a previous estimate of 5 million.
Lawmakers from Michigan and Wisconsin were among those who called PPACA a good first step toward health care coverage for all Americans at a Families USA conference in Washington.
The number of Americans projected to gain insurance from the U.S. health care law is eroding, by at least 5 million people, as the Obama administration struggles to implement the $1.3 trillion overhaul amid Republican opposition.