Anthem Blue Cross will not be participating in the California SHOP Exchange, Covered California. In June, Covered California eliminated the requirement that Qualified Health Plans wanting to participate in the individual exchange must also apply to participate in the SHOP exchange. Because Anthem is no longer required to participate in SHOP, as a condition of […]
The U.S. government announced it will move to an “honor system” in 2014 for coverage and income verification. States operating marketplaces, such as Covered California in California will not be required to confirm a consumer’s statement that he or she does not have employer-sponsored coverage, nor will states have to verify reported income, which determines […]
The Obama administration announced that the employer mandate aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will be delayed by one year to 2015. This mandate requires businesses with 50 or more workers to provide health insurance coverage to employees, or pay a penalty. As a result, the administration will start enforcing the […]
United Health Care, one of the leading health insurance provider in the country, just announced to leave the Individual Health Insurance market in California. This move follows Aetna‘s recent announcement to stop selling individual policies and discontinue services for all individual policyholders in California by the end of the year. With only 8,000 individual policy […]