by Barbara Kempen | Dec 18, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, COVID-19, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On December 10th the Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine and on December 18th Moderna with their mRNA-1273 vaccine received the FDA emergency release authorization for their Covid-19 vaccines. Due to the fact that initial supply is scarce in comparison to demand,...
by Barbara Kempen | Nov 11, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance
With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the US, employees are relying upon their employers, now more than ever, to provide affordable health insurance to protect them during this time. From November 15th to December 15th, group health insurance carriers are offering...
by Barbara Kempen | Oct 26, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
The Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing legal arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA, more commonly referred to the ACA for short, on November 10th, 2020 with a ruling expected by June of 2021. One of the...
by Barbara Kempen | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
With COVID-19 causing much uncertainty for employers, California has introduced several new bills to address workers compensation, the classification of employees as well as on employee paid sick leave to protect employees during these unprecedented times. Please...
by Barbara Kempen | Sep 24, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Telemedicine
Surprisingly, despite us still being in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, for 2021, we are seeing a record low rate increase of a weighted average of 0.6% through Covered CA and across the state of California. If you shop and switch to the lowest-cost silver plan,...
by Barbara Kempen | Sep 3, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
Did you know that your health insurance has waived member cost-shares for COVID-19 screening, testing, and treatment just like it does for preventative care? Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the US, the insurance carriers have responded by making both testing and...
by Barbara Kempen | Aug 27, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On August 24th, Covered CA announced that it is extending the Special Enrollment Period through the end of 2020 for those impacted by the recent fires affecting the entire state of California. With more than 500 fires raging across California, Covered CA has announced...
by Barbara Kempen | Aug 24, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Life Insurance
This year “the “Back-To-School Season” is marked with much uncertainty and creates a heavy burden for many families in California. As the CDC so appropriately expresses ” everyone’s goal is to prioritize the reopening of schools as safely...
by Barbara Kempen | Aug 12, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
On August 8th, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order called “Authorizing the Other Needs Assistance Program for Major Disaster Declarations Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019” to grant an extension of the Pandemic Unemployment...
by Barbara Kempen | Aug 5, 2020 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Uncategorized
Covered California released on August 4th, 2020 the weighted average rate increases in California for the individual and family health insurance market. Rates on average are increasing 0.6% statewide in 2021, setting a new record low and beating the 0.8% rate increase...
