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Covered California Small Business Announces Blackout Dates for Portal Enhancements

As part of the upcoming portal enhancements, MyCCSB.com will have a scheduled blackout period starting August 20th and ending on September 1st, 2021. During this period, MyCCSB.com will be inaccessibl...

Register for UnitedHealthcare SAMx Level Funded Training

SAMx – Level Funded is replacing myallsavers.com for quoting and enrolling 5-50 new business groups for UnitedHealthcare Level Funded business in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idah...

Cigna + Oscar Network Spotlight: Dignity Health

Cigna + Oscar is here to support your clients and prospects that need access to Dignity Health. Dignity Health facilities are in-network with both the LocalPlus and Open Access Plus networks. T...

Start Earning Points with the Blue Shield Producer Rewards Bonus System

Over 200 agencies and hundreds of individual producers have joined Blue Shield’s recently created Producer Rewards program, exceeding their expectations. Producer Rewards is a points-based broker bonu...

Anthem Blue Cross Adds New Gender Option on Electronic Enrollments

Additional Option for Sex/Gender Added To provide empathetic solutions and proactive support to all members, Anthem Blue Cross will add a non-binary birth-sex selection to their membership and ...

CMS Proposes Higher Price Transparency Penalties for Hospitals

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to increase the penalty for some hospitals that don’t comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule. There is a wide variatio...

Humana 2021 Welcome Back Bonus

Earn a bonus when you sell your FIRST dental and or vision case in over 12 months to 5+ enrolled size groups with initial dates of coverage from July 1 through December 31, 2021. 5+ Enrolled Employ...

Kaiser Permanente® Offers More Plan Choices for Small Groups

Effective 8/1, groups with 1-5 employees enrolled may select up to 4 HMO plans plus 1 PPO plan when they choose Kaiser Permanente®. Please contact your Amwins Connect Sales Representative for m...

Kaiser Permanente® Helps Large Groups Cut Down on Flu-related Absences

Kaiser Permanente® helps keep your large group clients' employees healthy during flu season. Encourage your large group clients to sign up for worksite flu shot clinics. There is a six-week lead t...

Health Net Invites You to the Q4 2021 Small Business Update Webinar

Health Net will host a webinar for Q4 2021 updates: Regional updates including what's selling, client opportunities, and rates. Flexible underwriting programs. Sales-boosting plan choices, n...

CaliforniaChoice® Rate Update for Q4 2021

CaliforniaChoice has issued new medical rates for October-December 2021 effective dates. Quoting is now available. Plans offered by Kaiser, Oscar, UHC and WHA received a rate pass. Anthem, H...

Webinar Replay: Surprise Billing

The regulatory agencies have released Part 1 of the Surprise Billing Rules that go into effect Jan. 1, 2022. In this webinar our partners at BenefitComply discuss how these rules may impact employer s...

Aetna Small Group Producer Reward Program

Earn additional producer credits when you sell Aetna Small Group new business plans to groups in California with 1-100 eligible employees. For cases with effective dates from January 1, 2021 throug...

HHS Issues Rule on Surprise Medical Bills

The Biden Administration issued an interim final rule to restrict out-of-pocket costs from surprise billing and balance billing. The regulations will take effect for health care providers and faci...

Anthem Blue Cross of California Q4 2021 Update

Anthem Blue Cross has released their Q4 2021 medical rates. There are no benefit or underwriting changes. HMO plans have 1.1% increase in most regions (-5.2% for regions 3 and 17) PPO plan...

Oscar Q4 2021 Rate Pass

Oscar has extended their Q3 rates through the end of Q4. There are no plan changes. Quoting will be available soon. Contact your Amwins Connect Regional Sales Manager for more information.

ChoiceBuilder® Rate Pass for Q4 2021

ChoiceBuilder® Q4 2021 rates, effective August 1, 2021 have been extended through December 1, 2021. There are no plan nor benefit changes. Quoting will be available soon. Contact your Amwins Con...

Health Net Underwriting Promotions for Q4 2021

Health Net has extended their underwriting promotions through Q4 2021. View the Q4 Promo Flyer. Sell HMO with 6 Promo Mix and match any HMO plans + Full Network PPO Bronze plans Must have 6...

Covered California Small Business Q4 Update

Covered California for Small Business (CCSB) Q4 rates are now quoting. As always with CCSB, actual rate changes may vary greatly by plan and region. Contact your Amwins Connect Regional Sales Manag...

Aetna Rate Update for Q4 2021

Aetna has issued new medical rates for Q4. There are no benefit or underwriting changes. There is an overall statewide decrease as follows: HMO Full: -7.9% HMO Limited: -4.0% PPO Full: -5...

Cigna + Oscar Webinar: The Difference Card

Join Cigna + Oscar for this live webinar on how to build health plans that benefit all parties involved: brokers, employers, and employees using the The Difference Card paired with Cigna + Oscar healt...