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DOL Issues New Rules for Association Health Plans

The Department of Labor (DOL) has released final Association Health Plan (AHP) rules. The rules are designed to make it easier for small employers and individuals to join together to offer, or purchas...

Employers Increase Cost Sharing While Expanding Benefit Offerings

Cost sharing is now a fact of life for most employees with the exponential growth of health care costs. Eighty-three percent of employers now share health care costs with their employees, according to...

Anthem Blue Cross Provider Updates

Anthem Blue Cross renewed their Commercial Hospital Agreement with Valley Children’s Hospital, located in the City of Madera. The fully executed multi-year contract is effective July 1, 2018. Anthem B...

Education is Key

Dental insurance is an important part of any employer’s benefits package. Studies have shown that potential hires are turning down jobs due to dissatisfaction with benefit offerings. But simply offeri...

Health Care Costs Explained

In 2018, healthcare costs averaged $28,166 for a family of four on an employer-sponsored PPO, according to the 2018-Milliman-Medical-Index. That’s a $1,222 increase over last year. The MMI has been in...

Kaiser Permanente® Announces LISI as New General Agency in Fresno and San Diego

Kaiser Permanente® has awarded LISI a new Large Group General Agency contract for Fresno and San Diego. For Fresno and San Diego brokers, you can now write Kaiser Permanente® coverage for Small and La...

Real Time Enrollment With Anthem Blue Cross

Installing new Anthem Small Group business just got faster thanks to LISI’s Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) connectivity with Anthem. LISI exclusively offers real-time enrollment for new Anthem Blue...

Delta Dental Reduces Out-Of-State Restrictions on PPOs

Delta Dental has some exciting news for employers with out-of-state populations. Effective immediately, Delta Dental has reduced restrictions on the number of employees residing out-of-state for its ...

Oscar Health Releases Sales Guide

Oscar Health released their “Getting Started Kit” for Brokers and GAs. The start-to-finish guide is for brokers who are new to Oscar as well as those who have already gotten appointed and need help cr...

Blue Shield of California and Stanford Health Have Signed a New Multi-Year Agreement

Blue Shield is pleased to announce that Blue Shield of California and Stanford Health have signed a new multi-year agreement June 1, 2018 for Stanford Medical Center and its physicians and Affinity ...

Summer Interns – Should They Be Eligible for Benefits?

As the school year is wrapping up and summer is almost upon us, we have many brokers getting questions from employers asking about hiring summer interns and how to handle benefit eligibility. Small em...

Anthem Blue Cross Offers Relaxed Participation

Anthem Blue Cross is reducing their relaxed participation for medical and specialty lines of coverage effective July 1, 2018 through December 15, 2018. They will continue to waive the DE-9C requiremen...

LISI and PrimePay's CE Webinar: Technology - Transforming the Employee Benefit Industry 4/10/2018

Thank you for attending TECHNOLOGY: TRANSFORMING THE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT INDUSTRY! We hope you gained valuable insight on current benefit trends and how your agency can incorporate technology to stay ...

Thank you for participating in our webinar "Getting Started with EaseCentral"

Thank you for participating in our webinar "Getting Started with EaseCentral" featuring guest speaker, David Reid, EaseCentral founder and CEO. If you were unable to attend, please referen...

Thank you for participating in our webinar “How Technology is Revolutionizing the Member Experience”

Thank you for participating in our webinar “How Technology is Revolutionizing the Member Experience” featuring guest speaker, Mario Schlosser, Oscar Health co-founder and CEO. If you were unable to...

Breakfast & Learn: Get to Know Oscar Health

Come see what the buzz is about as Oscar Health rolls out 17 group plans in Southern California. Oscar Health is hosting a seminar where you can enjoy breakfast and get an inside look at small group p...

Health Net Pays Members To Protect Their Health

Health Net has contracted with MedXM to offer free in-home health assessments from a licensed doctor or nurse practitioner for members who have not yet had their 2018 annual wellness exam. Members can...

California Supreme Court Ruling Means Many Independent Contractors Could Gain Employee Status

The California Supreme Court ruled, on April 30, that a tougher legal standard must be used to classify a worker as an independent contractor instead of an employee. This is a major development in C...

UnitedHealthcare Offers 5% Second Year Rate Cap on Dental

UnitedHealthcare is offering a 5% second year dental rate cap for groups that add a dental plan by January 1, 2019. Here are the guidelines: Effective dates are June 1, 2018 – January 1, 2019. ...

More Oscar Health Plans Available for Quoting and a Broker Bonus!

Oscar Health now has 11 new Exclusive Provider Organization plans (EPOs) available for quoting in addition to the six previously announced. And there are some great incentives for brokers. With the La...

Thank you for attending the Oscar Health Broker Training Webinar 5/8/2018!

Thank you for attending the Oscar Health Broker Training Webinar! We hope you gained valuable insight about their EPO portfolio available for coverage effective June 1, 2018 for Los Angeles and Ora...