Please contact your Member of Congress urging them to support bipartisan legislation to remove broker commissions from the MLR calculation under the health reform law. On February 10, Representatives Billy Long (R-MO) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) introduced H.R. 815, a bill to remove broker compensation from the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) calculation. This legislation would […]
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Here\’s a brief summary of the clarifications released in 2014 regarding Sections 6056 and 6055 from the agencies. Collectively, I will refer to the Department of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services as the \’Agencies\’. Section 6056 Reporting Requires applicable large employer members to file an IRS form (similar to and in addition to a
Clarification and New IRS Forms for ACA Regulation Sections 6055 and 6056 Read More »
\”If you\’ve been reading NAHU\’s Washington Update, you would know that the Broker Bill is coming! Per NAHU: The House of Representatives is inching ever closer to introducing the new iteration of the broker bill. Representatives Billy Long (R-MO) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) will be the primary cosponsors on this year’s bill to remove broker
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Few other industries are as heavily regulated as health insurance. Therefore, your success, and that of your clients, is directly dependent upon the actions of Congress. It is absolutely critical that we help those congressional candidates who support private-sector health insurance. HUPAC and TAHUPAC contributes to majority and minority party candidates, incumbents and challengers alike.
Thank You 2014 HUPAC and TAHUPAC Contributors! Read More »
Last week we reported that the House passed their version of the 40-hours bill and that the Senate would be considering their own legislation in the coming weeks. This week we are excited to report that the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee has set a hearing date for their bill, S. 30,
Forty Hours Heads to Senate! Read More »
Online registration is now open for NAHU’s Capital Conference and we invite you to register today! For twenty-five years, NAHU members have been coming to Washington, D.C., to stand together and make their voices heard. This year, make sure your voice is amongst the crowd. If you want to go but are nervous about being
The Texas Association of Health Underwriters would like to thank everyone that took the time to respond to their request for input regarding the Composite rating issue. TAHU took your feedback very seriously and voted to send the following message to the Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner. TAHU plans to get the following message out
TAHU Sends Statement to TDI and State Legislators regarding 4-Tiered Rating Read More »
CMS recently released the Proposed Rule for Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2016, which is now open to comments. NAHU is hard at work putting together our suggestions, but we thought you might like to see what’s included in the proposed rule. Some of these are ideas the association has been working on for quite
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One of the services you may offer as a life and health agent is assisting your clients with the claims process. They may call you after they receive that rather large emergency room bill and question why one of the doctors they saw was out-of-network when the hospital was in-network. You can offer the typical advice, such as matching up the explanation of benefits with the itemized bill, but did you know that you can suggest mediation for certain out-of-network claims?
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understandably, there has been a lot of concern and many questions and a bunch of worry over the NAIC\’s recent decision to not make a pronouncement in its current recommendations about how NAIC thinks agents commissions should be treated for the purposes of a carrier complying with the new medical loss ratio requirement.
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