On January 1, 2014, many of the new provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect. One of the largest changes is that insurance providers can no longer engage in a process called medical underwriting. Medical underwriting was when insurance...
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) requires most insurance companies to provide free preventive services, including colorectal cancer screening, such as a colonoscopy. This means that people don’t pay a co-pay, don’t pay a co-insurance amount, and it doesn’t get applied to their...
Workplace wellness programs are created to support healthy behavior in the workplace, which can improve employees’ health and lower the cost of health care spending. A majority of workplace wellness programs focus on prevention of chronic diseases, although workplace wellness programs address a variety of...
It’s January 16, 2014, and the Affordable Care Act is still here. There have been lots of changes over the last few weeks, in a few different areas: Marketplaces pushed back the deadline to enroll in a Marketplace plan for coverage to December 23, in order for...