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COVID -19: FFCRA & CARES Act – A Helpful Guide
By Dorothy M. Cociu As I write this article, I am, like all of you I’m sure, confined to my home office, where I’ve been for a number of weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m […]
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Complexities in the Healthcare System Create Opportunities for Brokers
Take a look at clinical advocacy programs After what she thought was a routine mammogram, Wanda Jones (pseudonym) got the call women dread. She had a spot on her right breast, and it was cancer. […]
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Covered Cal Says New Policies Worked
Covered California announced that 418,052 people had newly selected a health plan for 2020 during the most recent open-enrollment period. The total is more than 122,000, or 41 percent, higher than last year’s figure of […]
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Equal Insurance HIV Act Announced; California Bill Aims to End Life and Disability Denials Based on HIV-positive Status
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Senator Lena Gonzalez (D – Long Beach) and Equality California recently announced the Equal Insurance HIV Act, Senate Bill 961. If enacted, the bill would extend anti-discrimination protections in life […]
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‘This is not a guarantee of payment’
USA Today has covered yet another reason why agents want to tear their hair out (and another reason why insurance carriers aren’t winning popularity contests): retrospective denial. In a nutshell: people are increasingly getting preauthorizations, […]
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Professional Heartbreak Is Real
In a week that had a lot of interesting things happen, perhaps one of the most for us was a voicemail left by Thomas F. Allow me to paraphrase here. Mr. F. called to tell […]