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Preferred Broker Network Helps Brokers and Employers Navigate Healthcare Reform

San Francisco, CA – June 25, 2013 (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10855622.htm) Benefitter Insurance Solutions, Inc., announces the Benefitter Preferred Broker Network, which gives select agents, brokers and consultants a new arsenal of tools to help their clients and themselves benefit from healthcare reform. Agents, brokers and consultants nationwide are seeking the most effective way to guide their clients […]

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Benefitter Releases “Pay or Play” Calculator for Healthcare Reform

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 24, 2013 (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10854926.htm) Benefitter Insurance Solutions, Inc., announces the release of ReformAdvisor, a web-based “Pay or Play” calculator to help employers and brokers understand the costs for both employers and employees of providing group insurance versus paying the shared responsibility payments in a post-healthcare reform world. For a limited time, […]

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2014 Healthcare Reform Insurance Rates: Vindication or Condemnation?

Depending on who you listen to, when California announced its 2014 individual health insurance rates for its state-sponsored marketplace, Covered California, it was either a “pretty good deal,” with “no sticker shock” that proved that the healthcare reform naysayers were crying wolf, or “Rate Shock” from a “blizzard of regulations and mandates [that] drives up […]

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The Affordable Care Act for Dummies

The Affordable Care Act upends entrenched business models of healthcare and fosters opportunities for new visionaries to enter and re-shape the system. With fixed payments for providing services to a population, hospitals and providers are incentivized to invest in prevention, efficiency and minimization of unnecessary procedures and administration. Insurers, now capped on margin, must also […]

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Add Accuracy and Drop Judgment: Use “Shared Responsibility Payment”

With one minor exception, I was delighted to read Emily Maltby’s and Sarah E. Needleman’s thoughtful article* in the Wall Street Journal on April 8, 2013: “Some Small Businesses Opt for the Health-Care Penalty.” The minor exception and my feedback: let’s use the government’s own language of “Shared Responsibility Payment” instead of “Penalty” to describe […]

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Surprising Positive Impacts of Employers Dropping Healthcare Coverage

Nicole Fisher, a contributor to Forbes (see article link, below), delivers a relevant and thought-provoking opinion piece on some benefits of employers dropping healthcare coverage beginning in 2014. The piece brings up important points for employers who are thinking about eliminating employer-sponsored health insurance. First, Fisher points out that employers will drop employer-sponsored health coverage, […]

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Average Rock Health startup now worth $5.2M

“…Rock Health companies have the third highest average valuation of any incubator according to Angel List, at $5.2 million (behind StartX and Y-Combinator). Rock says the incubator’s portfolio companies have raised $43 million to date, not including investments from Rock itself, averaging about $900,000 per startup. The current class accounts for $13.9 million of that total…” […]

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Rock Health startups whipping healthcare industry into shape

“Benefitter helps employers confidently navigate health care reform, save money, and improve their employees’ well-being. CEO Brian Poger said that many employees would actually be better off if they did not receive employer-sponsored health insurance. Benefitter helps them understand the legislation, set strategy, and execute that strategy, “to make the Affordable Care Act, more affordable.” […]

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Announcing Benefitter

We are delighted to announce Benefitter, a business that helps employers make the Affordable Care Act affordable for themselves and their employees. When we began Benefitter, we were primarily focused on opportunities for employers to fund their employees’ healthcare coverage through HRAs (Health Reimbursement Arrangements) and for employees to purchase insurance on a healthcare exchange. […]

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Colorado Exchange Encourages Brokers with Comparable Compensation On and Off Exchange

Regarding the important issue of commissions for brokers on the public exchanges, Colorado has weighed in. Based on an article on ProducersWeb, it appears the Colorado Exchange is doing its best to encourage as many brokers and agents as possible to funnel customers to the Colorado Public Exchange. As with California, Colorado expresses optimism about […]

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