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Baby Health Insurance Playbook: 5 Steps to Plan for a Newborn

Corporate Synergies

A new father outlines requirements with his Baby Health Insurance Playbook. The same can be said for insuring a new dependent. To plan for newborn healthcare benefits, parents need a baby health insurance playbook. The Baby Health Insurance Playbook isn’t really a book. As Seen In.

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June HR News Worth Review

Higginbotham

As we have been discussing since last year through multiple webinars and compliance updates, the Transparency in Coverage Final Rules (TiC Final Rules) require group health plans and health insurance issuers to disclose on a public website detailed pricing information in three separate machine-readable files (MRFs).

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Why Transparency Has Become a Trending Topic for Benefit Agencies

GRA Benefits Group

Advocates have arrived in the form of third-party vendors, apps, and even insurance carriers. In 2019, President Trump explained: “To make fully informed decisions about their healthcare, patients must know the price and quality of a good or service in advance. Better-informed employers that help workers shop for value.

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What PBM-carrier Mergers Mean for Employers and Benefits Plans

Corporate Synergies

Consolidation in the insurance industry—integrating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) into carriers—is bringing change to the way employers buy health insurance and how employees and consumers use it. Whether these PBM-carrier mergers are good or bad remains to be seen. What Plans Should Do Right Now.

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Why you should offer Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts health care to your employees

Genesis HR Solutions

If you’ve been around small to midsize businesses for any amount of time over the last decade, you’ve no doubt seen or experienced the frustrations of navigating health insurance. And those players often come armed with health insurance options that small businesses like yours don’t have access to or can’t afford to offer on your own.

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The Fair and Reasonable Renewal Rate: the Art of Carrier Negotiations

Corporate Synergies

Annual health insurance carrier negotiations doesn’t have to be a contact sport. During carrier negotiations, employers naturally seek the lowest rate increase, while carriers typically propose a high increase. Want to Tackle Rising Insurance Costs? © 2019 Corporate Synergies Group, LLC.

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New Transparency Requirements for Health Plans

AssuredPartners

Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury (together, the Departments) issued a final rule under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and in furtherance of an executive order issued in 2019.