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MetLife Webinar: Time Out - A Path to Improving Employee Well-being

Join MetLife and The Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) for an informative webinar to help you better support your customers and their employees in the area of mental health When Thur...

Kaiser Permanente® and Mayo Clinic Partner to Advance Leading Edge Home Care for High Acuity Patients

Kaiser Permanente® just announced it is partnering with the Mayo Clinic to invest in Medically Home, an innovative company with a one-of-a-kind technology and service platform that enables caring for ...

Cigna + Oscar Announces Q4 Rate Pass for California

Cigna + Oscar has announced a rate pass for Q4 2021 in California. Quoting is not available yet. Have you taken advantage of Cigna + Oscar's broker bonuses yet? Through 7/15 effective dates,...

Kaiser Permanente® Announces American Rescue Plan Process

Kaiser Permanente has announced a process for facilitating the new APR requirements based on how federal COBRA and/or Cal-COBRA is currently billed. Groups Billed Federal COBRA and Kaiser Billed Ca...

Guardian: American Rescue Plan Act COBRA and State Continuation Subsidy

As part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act, most employers subject to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) will be responsible for pre-funding and administering a temporary ...

CaliforniaChoice® and ChoiceBuilder® Release Important ARPA COBRA Subsidy Updates

CaliforniaChoice® and ChoiceBuilder® have released more information that pertains to American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) COBRA premium subsidy requirements in COBRA and Cal-COBRA Information. Key takeaw...

Anthem Blue Cross of California Urges Small Groups with Less than 20 Employees to Take Action

Anthem Blue Cross of California (Anthem) urges small groups with less than 20 employees to take action in order to qualify Assistance Eligible Individuals for state continuation COBRA premium assi...

Cigna + Oscar Webinar: Top Reasons to Sell Cigna + Oscar

Join in to learn more about the top reasons to sell Cigna + Oscar! They will cover their competitive advantage with HRA, how they offer deductible AND max out-of-pocket credit, and the new partner...

Webinar Playback: The LISI & Guardian HR Partnership

We recently hosted a Webinar announcing our new partnership with Guardian HR. With no minimum commitment, it’s the easiest way to provide expert advice and resources to your employer clients on HR and...

Compliance Brief: IRS Releases Additional COBRA Subsidy Guidance

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2021-31 (the Notice) which includes significant guidance regarding the American Rescue Plan (ARP) COBRA subsidy. The Notice answers some of the out...

CaliforniaChoice® Amends Broker Agreements

CaliforniaChoice® is amending their CHOICE Administrators Agent Agreement to include the following changes: Six Month Commission Consideration Eliminated: When a group chooses a new broker duri...

Small Businesses Remain Committed to Employee Benefits

Despite a shaky economy, 75% of small employers are keeping or growing their benefits in 2021, according to a Unum survey. Thirty-six percent of small businesses plan to hire new employees, and 20...

What Employees Want During Open Enrollment

The company, isolved, surveyed full-time employees to learn about their expectations for benefits programs and platforms. At the top of the wish lists are better enrollment technologies, more cust...

Anthem Released a COVID-19 Relief Guide to Help Employers

Anthem Blue Cross created a guide to help employers respond to the effects of COVID-19 on their business and employees. COVID-19 Employer Relief Options Guide includes the following information: ...

Your Online Resource for COBRA Premium Subsidies Under ARPA

Amwins Connect has created an online resource on COBRA and Cal-COBRA premium subsidies under the American Rescue Plan Act Of 2021 (ARPA ). You can easily find answers to your questions with our c...

CA Businesses Won’t be Taxed on Forgiven PPP Loans

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will give small businesses a $6.2 billion tax cut over the next six years. Under the legislation, AB 80 by Assemblymember Autumn Burke (D-Inglewood), the f...

New Rules Lower OOP Costs on Marketplace Plans

CMS adopted new provisions to lower maximum out-of-pocket costs to consumers by $400 for millions of Americans who will rely on the Federal Health Insurance Marketplaces in plan year 2022. The fol...

CA Bill Would Allow Adding Dependent Parents on a Health Plan

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is sponsoring legislation authored by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) that would allow employees to add their dependent parents to their health i...

How A Lower Medicare Age May Affect Health Plan Costs

Employer health plan costs could drop significantly if the Medicare age were lowered, according to an analysis by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation. One of Pres...

Cypress Break the Bank Broker Bonus for Dental PPO Sales

Cypress Dental is offering a broker bonus for fully insured dental PPO groups you enroll from May 1, 2021 through September 1, 2021. The bonus is broken out by group size. 3-9 employees = $150 ...

Principal's Stance on ARPA COBRA Premium Subsidy

Since the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act on March 11, our community of employers, brokers, carriers, and members have stretched compliance skills to understand how the provisions of fully sub...