Carrier News

Sharp Health Plan Offers Special Enrollment Period for SB78

Under California Senate Bill 78, residents who don’t have qualifying health insurance coverage beginning January 1, 2020 will be subject to a tax penalty of $695 or more, unless they qualify for an ex...

Anthem Blue Cross Reaches Agreement with Beaver Medical Group

Anthem Blue Cross has reached a multi-year agreement with Beaver Medical Group (under Epic Management) effective January 1, 2020. Beaver Medical Group provides services to members in the Inland Empi...

Sutter Health Expands Service Area in Santa Clara County

Sutter Health Plus is expanding their service area in Santa Clara County effective January 1, 2020 and adding 15 new ZIP codes. The expansion will provide more convenient access to care for members in...

Kaiser Permanente® Offers Special Enrollment Period

Help small group employees avoid tax penalties. A new California law requires all state residents to have health coverage in 2020 or face state tax penalties. To help your clients’ employees avoid ...

Carriers Respond to Wildfires

Principal, VSP Vision Care, and Delta Dental of California have all reached out to support Californians who are affected by the wildfires in Sonoma, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. Principal ...

CVS Caremark to Become Sharp Health Plan’s PBM

Effective January 1, 2020, CVS Caremark will be Sharp Health Plan’s new pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). New customer enhancements include: Dedicated prescription helplines staffed by experts to ...

Kaiser Permanente® Paperless Billing Has Arrived

Paperless billing is the new standard at Kaiser Permanente® starting January 2020. Go green and save some time by using Kaiser Permanente® online tools to view and pay bills. Groups will get their las...

Health Net’s 2020 Small Group Portfolio Features Choice and Value

Health Net has introduced a simplified 2020 Small Group Solutions portfolio that’s easy to sell with attractive plan choices at competitively low rates. 2020 New Plans and Designs ...

How Carriers Are Responding to the Individual Mandate

California’s Individual Mandate, SB78 was included in the state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed on June 27, 2019. Generally speaking, a taxpayer who fails to secure coverage will be subject...

UnitedHealthcare: NEW expanded Alliance HMO Network Now Available in Orange County!

UnitedHealthcare SignatureValue Alliance HMO Benefit Plan is a health plan that offers access to physicians selected based on their ability to guide their patients to the care and resources that help ...

Blue Shield of California Underwriting Updates and Reminders

Blue Shield of California is clearing obstacles for start-ups and spin-offs. In lieu of payroll documents, they will accept simple attestation forms and W-4 forms for these groups. Other standard docu...

Blue Shield of California Q1 2020 Plan Options

Blue Shield of California is adding several new plans to their 2020 medical portfolio to provide more options for your new and renewing small business accounts. They added a Platinum PPO with no deduc...