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Anthem Blue Cross Offers Special Enrollment Period in Response to SB78

Anthem Blue Cross is offering group employees, who previously declined coverage, another chance to enroll for January 1, 2020 under a new Special Enrollment Period required by a new state law, SB78. ...

CaliforniaChoice® Anthem Blue Cross EPO Plans Available Out-of-State

CaliforniaChoice® has good news for groups with out of state employees! Beginning December 1, 2019, Anthem Blue Cross EPO plans will be available to out-of-state employees for new and renewing groups....

Get Your SEP Groups to LISI by December 9, 2019

The window for the small group Special Enrollment Period (SEP) is open from November 15, 2019 to December 15, 2019. Your groups can apply for a January 2020 effective date without meeting carrier part...

The Latest Broker Bonuses From California's Health Carriers

Have you taken advantage of the latest broker bonuses from health insurance carriers in California? Some of these great opportunities are ending soon: Date Ending ...

Sharp Health Plan Offers Special Enrollment Period for SB78

Under California Senate Bill 78, residents who don’t have qualifying health insurance coverage beginning January 1, 2020 will be subject to a tax penalty of $695 or more, unless they qualify for an ex...

Anthem Blue Cross Reaches Agreement with Beaver Medical Group

Anthem Blue Cross has reached a multi-year agreement with Beaver Medical Group (under Epic Management) effective January 1, 2020. Beaver Medical Group provides services to members in the Inland Empi...

Sutter Health Expands Service Area in Santa Clara County

Sutter Health Plus is expanding their service area in Santa Clara County effective January 1, 2020 and adding 15 new ZIP codes. The expansion will provide more convenient access to care for members in...

Kaiser Permanente® Offers Special Enrollment Period for Individual Mandate SB78

Help small group employees avoid tax penalties. A new California law requires all state residents to have health coverage in 2020 or face state tax penalties. To help your clients’ employees avoid ...

Health Net Q4 Broker Bonus Increase in December

Health Net has introduced their Q4 broker bonus program: Earn a $100 per-member bonus for every new small business group (SBG) sale with effective dates from October 1, 2019 to November 30, 201...

Carriers Respond to Wildfires

Principal, VSP Vision Care, and Delta Dental of California have all reached out to support Californians who are affected by the wildfires in Sonoma, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. Principal ...

CVS Caremark to Become Sharp Health Plan’s PBM

Effective January 1, 2020, CVS Caremark will be Sharp Health Plan’s new pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). New customer enhancements include: Dedicated prescription helplines staffed by experts to ...

Kaiser Permanente® Paperless Billing Has Arrived

Paperless billing is the new standard at Kaiser Permanente® starting January 2020. Go green and save some time by using Kaiser Permanente® online tools to view and pay bills. Groups will get their las...

Health Net’s 2020 Small Group Portfolio Features Choice and Value

Health Net has introduced a simplified 2020 Small Group Solutions portfolio that’s easy to sell with attractive plan choices at competitively low rates. 2020 New Plans and Designs ...

Round up of Carriers Offering a SEP for the Individual Mandate SB78

California’s Individual Mandate, SB78 was included in the state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed on June 27, 2019. Generally speaking, a taxpayer who fails to secure coverage will be subject...

UnitedHealthcare Offers Special Enrollment Due to CA Individual Mandate SB78

UnitedHealthcare is offering special open enrollment for employees, and their dependents, who previously declined coverage in 2019. They can enroll for January 1, 2020 coverage. On June 27, 2019, ...

UnitedHealthcare: NEW expanded Alliance HMO Network Now Available in Orange County!

UnitedHealthcare SignatureValue Alliance HMO Benefit Plan is a health plan that offers access to physicians selected based on their ability to guide their patients to the care and resources that help ...

Blue Shield of California Underwriting Updates and Reminders

Blue Shield of California is clearing obstacles for start-ups and spin-offs. In lieu of payroll documents, they will accept simple attestation forms and W-4 forms for these groups. Other standard docu...

Blue Shield of California Q1 2020 Plan Options

Blue Shield of California is adding several new plans to their 2020 medical portfolio to provide more options for your new and renewing small business accounts. They added a Platinum PPO with no deduc...

Governor Signs Health Insurance Bills

Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the following two bills that affect the health insurance industry: Dialysis Reimbursement Limits — AB 290: The new law limits the private-insurance reimburs...

UnitedHealthcare Updates Small Group Applications

UnitedHealthcare has released updated employer and employee applications. Please begin using these forms immediately. Older applications will not be accepted after January 2020. Get the forms now: ...

Sharp Health Plan Q1 2020 Rate and Portfolio Update

Sharp Health Plan has released their Q1 2020 update. All plans will have updates on benefits though only a few plan names will change. When enrolling your 2020 groups, please make sure to use the corr...