Employer Mandate Calculator

Employer Mandate Calculator Many people have heard of the employer mandate. Under Health Care reform, employers with more than 50 full time employees to offer health insurance to their employees. IF they don’t they will have to pay a penalty that is not tax deductible. They may also have to pay a penalty if any of their employee get subsidies through […]

The Complexity of Health Care Reform

AMEDNEWS Here is a great article about how complex and difficult health care reform is. Under the ACA, all medical practices have to go to Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The thought behind this is that it would help end any unnecessary test and improve the out come of patients care. CMS thinks, that EMR may be leading […]

President Says The Public Does Not Know The Health Care Law

Bloomberg The President of the United States recently spoke about the new health care law. He stated that the public does not know about the benefits of the new law.  Most of Congress does not know about the benefits of the new health care law. Anytime you have a 2,000 page law and then another 15,000 pages […]

Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Summary of important items and definitions to know: 1. ACA imposes penalties on “large” employers, if at least one full-time employee obtains a premium credit through the newly established exchange. Employers are not subject to a penalty if their full-time employees are eligible […]

Medical Costs Revealed

Huffington Post CMS has just released data on the differences in medical cost from different hospitals. This is a very big story in the medical community because now the hospital groups have to justify what they charge. This information has always been kept out of the public eye but this report will opens everyone eyes […]

Small Business Tax Credits In The Exchange

Well there is not much information floating around about tax credits for small groups on the health insurance exchange. If a small group employer was to purchase health insurance from the exchange they may be eligible for tax credits. That tax credit could be as high as 50% of the total premium the company contributed […]

Congress Aids Look At Exemption from Insurance Mandate?

Politico just released a story about talks of exempting Congress staffers from the Insurance mandate. You can’t make this up!  These are very people that are suppose to understand the laws they pass.  Come to find out, very few of them have any understanding of the law. Congress is worried about “brain drain” by losing young […]

Subsidy Calculator For Health Insurance

Subsidy Calculator Here is a calculator for federal subsides through the health insurance exchange. The calculator is will estimate the cost of the insurance plan under the silver option. The tax credit that is available and the estimated monthly premium the insured will incur.  

Health Care Reform Fear

The Hill has posted an interesting article about Senator Max Baucus. It looks like the Senator is worried about the communication of the health insurance laws. The Senator has had public conversations with HHS about getting actual information and not just concepts.  Since the Senator was one of the main authors of the bill he has a lot […]

Doctors and Exchange Health Insurance

New information has been released about health insurance exchange policies and premium payments. Under the new law, if you buy a policy from the health insurance exchange, you have a 90 day grace period to pay premiums. This is going to have a huge impact on how doctors treat exchange policyholders. Doctor may be reluctant […]