Riverside Physician Network (RPN) doctors are moving to PrimeCare Riverside, which means more options for your clients in this area. Effective immediately, Blue Shield members may select RPN primary c...
Western Health Advantage (WHA) announces a 2.6% rate impact across their regions (Regions 2 and 3). Q1 quoting is now available. Remember that WHA's region is changing effective January 1, 2020.
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Carriers have begun releasing their Q1 2020 updates. So we created the chart below to offer them all in one place. We’ll continue to add to this resource as more Q1 updates come out. Click on the carr...
Sutter Health Plus has released their 2020 rates. All plans will increase by 1.1%, on average, compared to Q4 2019. There are no underwriting changes at this time.
The 2020 portfolio experienced mi...
UnitedHealthcare has released Q1 2020 rates with quoting available immediately. The quarterly average change for all networks is as follows:
Northern California
HMO 1.1%
PPO -1.1%
Sout...
Kaiser Permanente® has released their January to June 2020 rates. Quoting is available now. All plans received a rate increase: HMOs went up 1.2% and PPOs went up 5.2%.
All plans have benefit chan...
Health Net reports a quarterly statewide average increase across all plans. Health Net's published rates are 3.6% for PPOs and 4.6% for HMOs.They are expanding their portfolio with new Gold HMO and PP...
Effective January 1, 2020, Western Health Advantage (WHA) will no longer be part of Canopy Health. This means members will no longer have access to Canopy affiliated medical groups in the East Bay, Sa...
Principal Managed Care Vision added Walmart and Sam’s Club as in-network providers, effective September 1, 2019. That means more providers in big cities and rural areas — 9,579 new access points for a...
Anthem Blue Cross will issue Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rebate checks to small group employers by September 30, 2019. Rebate notifications will also be sent to employees of impacted groups. LISI has a l...
Stanford Health Care is again participating in the Anthem Blue Cross network. The contract between Anthem Blue Cross and Stanford had been terminated effective September 1, 2019. However, both parties...
You can now quote Anthem Blue Cross Q1 2020 plans. LISI reports a minimal statewide quarterly increase across all plans with HMOs at 0.3%, PPOs at 0.4%, and PPO HSAs at 0.8%. Anthem will only terminat...