03/02/2020
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03/02/2020
UnitedHealthcare Enhances Small Business Broker Site
There is a new look and feel to UnitedHealthcare’s California Small Business broker site. You can quickly find detailed product grids, plan summaries, and forms with better accessibility and downloadi...
02/27/2020
UnitedHealthcare Vision Offers Contact Lenses From Warby Parker
Beginning the week of March 9, 2020 UnitedHealthcare vision members can purchase contact lenses from Warby Parker, in addition to frames and single-vision or progressive lenses. Warby Parker will offe...
02/27/2020
Anthem Blue Cross Makes Updates to Certain Bronze Plans
Anthem Blue Cross recently made benefit changes to certain Bronze plans in response to state regulatory approval requirements. The following plans are in Anthem's Direct Portfolio on both Full and S...
02/27/2020
UnitedHealthcare Vision Network Now Includes GlassesUSA.com
UnitedHealthcare Vision is expanding online shopping options by adding GlassesUSA.com to their network. Effective March 6, 2020, members can access benefits at www.glassesusa.com/UHC by entering their...
02/25/2020
Anthem Blue Cross Offers Specialty Broker Bonus — Effective Dates of February 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021.
You qualify for the Anthem Blue Cross Specialty Broker Bonus when you bring in at least 10 new lines of coverage and $75,000 in new annualized premium. Earn up to $25,000 per line of coverage for ...
02/19/2020
Employers Respond to Rising Costs with More Plan Choices
Businesses are offering more plans with a wider range of pricing to cope with steep premium increases, according to a study by Ease. West Coast businesses average over six health plan options, which i...
02/19/2020
Short Video Highlights CaliforniaChoice®
The new “California Different” video offers the perfect way to promote CaliforniaChoice® to your clients. The video spotlights the company’s innovative approach to employee benefits, how the program w...
02/18/2020
Principal Offers Dental Promos
Principal is offering promotions on qualifying groups of under 200 lives for dental cases with effective and renewal dates of September 1, 2019 to July 1, 2020. You have the opportunity to boost your ...
02/12/2020
Anthem Blue Cross Notifies Members of Los Angeles Hospital Closure
St. Vincent Medical Center closed and discontinued all services on January 24, 2020. The Los Angeles acute care hospital had been contracted with Anthem Blue Cross. On February 11, 2020, Anthem mailed...
02/10/2020
UnitedHealthcare Offers New 2020 Sales Bonus
UnitedHealthcare is offering a new broker bonus to agents in California who sell new medical plans with effective dates from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021. The bonus is based on the number of enr...
02/05/2020
Blue Shield of California Expands Trio
Blue Shield of California’s ever-growing list of Trio providers now includes St. John's Physicians Partners. Their partner hospital is Providence St. John's Health Center. This addition is a focused e...
02/03/2020
Maintenance on Ebix/HealthConnect Quoting System
Ebix will be performing maintenance on servers hosting the Ebix/HealthConnect Quoting System. Their team will perform required updates to servers. Maintenance Schedule ...
01/31/2020
UnitedHealthcare SG Underwriting Update on 1099 Coverage
Effective immediately, UnitedHealthcare has updated their small group guidelines according to California and Federal common law employee requirements. Going forward, similar to other carriers in the m...
01/28/2020
Health Net Offers Easy Access to Care
Health Net has the coverage and cost combinations to deliver value to your clients. In most cases, you can upgrade the network and still help your clients save money. Health Net makes their small busi...
01/28/2020
Health Net Offers Per-Member Bonus
Health Net has a great bonus — You’ll earn a $50 per-member bonus for every new Small Business Group (SBG) sale you make with effective dates from April 1, 2020, through June 1, 2020. That means a f...
01/28/2020
Anthem Blue Cross Updates Blue View Vision Network
Anthem Blue Cross Blue View VisionSM eye care plans no longer include Sears Optical, JCPenney Optical, and Stanton Optical as of February 1, 2020. Anthem sent a mailer to members who visited these opt...
01/23/2020
Sutter Health Plus Announces Rate Pass for Q2
Sutter Health Plus announced a rate pass for Q2. Quoting is now available. Sutter is a local not-for-profit HMO with a single network with over 7,000 providers and 30 hospitals. Their easy-to-understa...
01/21/2020
Anthem Blue Cross Announces Q2 Rate Action
Anthem Blue Cross reports a statewide average increase of 0.9% across all small group medical plans for Q2. There are no medical plan changes. The following underwriting promotions continue through Ju...
01/16/2020
California Bills Would Make Insurers Cover More Mental Health Care
State Senators Jim Beall, D-San Jose, and Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, co-authored two bills that address California’s growing mental health and addiction crises — SB 854 and SB 855. Strengtheni...
01/16/2020
