3 Tips to Remember when you create a Marketplace Account
The following blog entry from healthcare.gov contains a few tips for establishing a Marketplace Account. I highly recommend using the Internet Explorer browser when attempting to setup your Marketplace account. And of course, if you found anything from schealthconnector.org useful, please consider designating us as your agent/broker. On section 3 of your subsidy application, entitled […]
Healthcare.gov Update Tuesday – 11/12/2013
HealthCare.gov NEW Weekend Alert: The Health Insurance Marketplace online application isn’t available from approximately 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. EST daily while we make improvements. In addition, between Saturday evening, November 9 and early morning on Tuesday, November 12, there will be times when you can fill out your application, but you will need to […]
South Carolina Healthcare Reform Quick Update – 11/08/2013
South Carolina Healthcare Reform Quick Update – 11/08/2013 The federal marketplace website has been working somewhat more reliably. However, as of Thursday 11/07/2013 the site indicated the HUB was down. Although we could complete and submit a subsidy application, we could not receive a subsidy determination. Stay tuned for more news! Currently, 11/09/2013, it appears […]
AMA study finds South Carolina Market 6th least Competitive
Nov. 7, 2013 CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced its annual list of 10 states with the lowest levels of competition among commercial health insurers. Those are among 15 states in which a single company had a majority share of the market. The list was developed from the newly released 2013 edition […]
“Use It or Lose It” – IRS Modifies FSA Rules
On November 1, 2013 the Internal Revenue Service issued new guidance affecting Flexible Spending Accounts. How will this guidance affect South Carolina residents? The new guidance allows up to $500 of unused FSA funds at the end of a plan year in a health FSA to be paid or reimbursed to plan participants for qualified medical expenses […]
The System is Down at the Moment
A picture is worth 1000 words…. So the healthcare.gov website is down – and has been the last few days I checked. Hopefully it will be up and running smoothly very soon! The Presidents statement that the site will be fully operational for nearly everyone by the end of November is concerning, to put it […]
Shared Responsibility Individual Mandate Guidance – UPDATE
Individual Mandate Update from CMS – 10/28/2013 South Carolina residents will have until March 31 — not Feb. 15 — to sign up for Obamacare marketplace coverage without any penalty under the individual mandate, according to new guidance issued by the CMS.This guidance is to clear up confusion about the two dates. The Obamacare open […]
Marketplace update from HHS – October 26, 2013
This Marketplace Update comes from the HHS blog: Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services Saturday, October 26, 2013 To give Americans a better way to shop for health coverage, the federal government and states recently launched Health Insurance Marketplaces. Yesterday, we announced a clear path forward so that by the end of November, […]
South Carolina Platinum Plan – They DO exist.
2015 Update: South Carolina Platinum Plan 10/03/2015 – We can now confirm that there will be at least one South Carolina Platinum plan offered in EVERY South Carolina county for 2015 on the Health Insurance Marketplace. According to our sources, this will be a PPO based product offered by Assurant. This means that SC residents […]
Don’t be misled: Healthcare.gov!
Last weekend a new link/page was added to www.healthcare.gov. This link is titled “See Plans Now” (see image below – you can click to enlarge). This new feature claimed to let users view plans and rates in their area. Unfortunately, the information provided via this tool is incorrect for nearly all users. Why, you ask? […]