Carrier News

CaliforniaChoice® Offers New Out of State Options with Cigna + Oscar

CaliforniaChoice® is offering new options for out of state employees. Effective 4/1, Cigna + Oscar’s LocalPlus network within CaliforniaChoice® will allow out of state employees! Out of State employee...

UnitedHealthcare Rate Update, April 2022

UnitedHealthcare has issued a rate update for Q2 2022. There are no changes to plan designs or underwriting guidelines. Quoting is now available. Statewide average change shows a 2.5% increase per ...

Aetna Southern CA Network Negotiations with Optum

Recently, Aetna notified you that they are in active contract negotiations with the Optum Group for the following medical groups for HMO members: AppleCare, Monarch, and PrimeCare Medical Group. They ...

Health Net Q2 2022 Update

Health Net is available to quote for Q2 2022; please note, rates are pending approval. There is a moderate rate change with HMOs seeing a slight decrease and EPO plans seeing a slight increase. There ...

Sharp Health Plan Releases Q2 2022 Rates

Sharp Health Plan has released their Q2 2022 rates. All HMO plan rates will increase by 0.7%. There are no changes to plan designs or underwriting guidelines. Quoting is available now. Contact your...

VSP Response to Tornadoes

VSP® Vision Care cares and wants to do everything they can to help those affected by the recent tornadoes that swept across the U.S. They’re working directly with our network doctors, business partner...

CaliforniaChoice® Introduces New Plans for March 2022

CaliforniaChoice is offering even more choice by adding two new plans! Effective 3/1/22, Anthem’s Priority Select HMO network will be available in their portfolio. These rich gold and silver plans wil...

Anthem Blue Cross of California Offers Additional Network Flexibility through June 2022

For groups effective January 2022 through June 2022, Anthem Small Group will be allowing additional network flexibility. Employers can select one of the following pairings: Any 2 HMO networks...

Cigna + Oscar: Easy Underwriting

Cigna + Oscar is serving up easy underwriting! Start-ups have access to flexible payroll requirements and no DE-9C is needed for groups of 3+ enrolled. With the nation-wide Open Access Plus PPO...

CoPower Offers New Online Method of Payment for Existing Groups

CoPower groups have multiple ACH payment options. Groups can now submit one-time ACH payments from their bank account to pay invoices. Groups can go to www.copower.com/paynow to submit an ACH payme...

Kaiser Permanente® Makes Managing Members Easier

Kaiser Permanente® is making it easy to support your groups through Manage Members, no delegation needed. You now have the same Manage Members access and capabilities as your groups, which means yo...

Health Net Underwriting Updates for Q1 2022

Health Net introduces smoother selling effective January 1, 2022. They are changing the out-of-state maximum requirement from 49% of ‘enrolled’ and ‘eligible’ employees to just 49% of ‘eligible’...