The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA), also called the “No Surprises Act” required all health insurance carriers and employers that offer group coverage to provide increased transparen...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to increase the penalty for some hospitals that don’t comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule. There is a wide variatio...
The regulatory agencies have released Part 1 of the Surprise Billing Rules that go into effect Jan. 1, 2022. In this webinar our partners at BenefitComply discuss how these rules may impact employer s...
The Biden Administration issued an interim final rule to restrict out-of-pocket costs from surprise billing and balance billing. The regulations will take effect for health care providers and faci...
We believe part of making healthcare simpler means empowering members’ decisions with information that balances the cost and quality of services. Anthem Blue Cross will expand the amount of informatio...
We believe part of making healthcare simpler means empowering members’ decisions with information that balances the cost and quality of services. Anthem Blue Cross will expand the amount of informatio...
How Patients and Providers Can Benefit from the New Price Transparency Rule
On October 29, 2020, CMS, along with the Departments of Labor and Treasury, issued a final rule that will require m...
The COVID-19 relief bill (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA)) recently passed by Congress contains several important employee benefit-related provisions, including restrictions on “surprise m...
Final Rule Boosts Price Transparency & Addresses the MLR
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury issued a final rule that requires almost all health insurance comp...