Individual, Group & Medicare Healthcare Insurance.
The common advice given to people with health coverage is to make sure your doctor is in network. Plans have IN and OUT of network coverage. Talking of PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) plans, your benefits are richer for the user in network vs. out of network. Consumers know they will have to pay more to […]
I believe my job is to help people protect or try to “cover” risk in life. Disability Insurance (DI) is an area we all should at least look over and be aware of. According to the numbers this is “the” risk that affects the most people, whether we want to think about and evaluate it […]
Healthy Texas Healthy Texas, a new statewide public/private partnership health insurance program for small groups of employees in Texas, went into effect January 1, 2011. The partnership is between the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) and two major health insurance companies, United Healthcare (UHC) and Celtic and came about as a result of the new […]
I often get asked “what is the status of the Health Care Reform law”? This topic is known by several different names as I have listed below: Health Care Reform (HCR) – Affordable Health Care (AHC) – Affordable Care Act (ACA) Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA) (H. R. 3962) (the House bill) […]
The following video from C-SPAN’s morning show, “Washington Journal,” presents the status of healthcare reform from NPR healthcare reporter, Ms. Julie Rovner. It shows the status as she sees it as of 01/09/2011 and is about 30 minutes long. Julie Rovner talks about the implementation of the Health Care Reform Law and took viewer calls […]
Any pre-existing condition waiting period met under an employer’s prior (qualifying) coverage will be credited to the current plan, if any interruption of coverage between the new and prior plans meets state guidelines. Not having a lapse in Health Insurance can be very important, especially if you have health issues. If you go without Health […]
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