by Barbara Kempen | Apr 30, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Santa Monica
Assurant, a company who just recently successfully entered the California market, has just announced that they are leaving the health insurance market in 2016, all together. Why could this be? All health insurance carriers are receiving the costs of implementing the...
by Barbara Kempen | Apr 29, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
According to an article published by NPR, Californians are now able to pay cash for their monthly health insurance premiums at over 680 locations across California. The L.A. Care health insurance, one of the carriers offered at Covered California, is available at...
by Barbara Kempen | Mar 28, 2015 | Life Insurance
Many of my clients ask me how I feel about the disaster of the German Wings airplane crash, being an American/German citizen. This tragedy not only saddens me, but is also incomprehensible. A NPR interview with Kenneth Feinberg, the Attorney who was in charge of the...
by Barbara Kempen | Mar 13, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a special enrollment period (SEP) that will allow eligible consumers to apply for and enroll in coverage. Covered California and Anthem Blue Cross (Anthem) have followed CMS and adopted a...
by Barbara Kempen | Feb 23, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Santa Monica
Covered California is offering a special enrollment period for Californians who did not know or understand there was a tax penalty for being uninsured in 2014 or who learned they may face a tax penalty for 2015. The Special Enrollment Period begins February 23rd and...
by Barbara Kempen | Jan 21, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
Californians who applied for health insurance through Covered California in 2014 will receive within the next weeks a 1095- A form. This is a health Insurance Medical Statement. In Section 1 it lists the health insurance policy name, the health insurance you...
by Barbara Kempen | Jan 20, 2015 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Santa Monica
The annual tax penalty for not carrying health insurance in California will increase in 2015 to $ 325 per adult and $ 162.50 per child, or, 2 % of your annual income (whatever is higher). The maximum penalty will be $975 per family or roughly 2 % of total income...
by Barbara Kempen | Dec 10, 2014 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Santa Monica
The Special Enrollment Period for small business seeking group health insurance ends December 15th in California . From November 15 to December 15 2014 Small business who are seeking health insurance do not have to qualify for the normal Eligibility Guidelines,...
by Barbara Kempen | Dec 10, 2014 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
If you want to make changes to your health insurance in California for an effective date for January 1st, 2015. You have to act now as the deadline is Monday December 15th. As an independent health insurance agent I have been in contact with many of my clients and I...
by Barbara Kempen | Nov 16, 2014 | Affordable Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica
The Open Enrollment Period for the individual health insurance market in California started this weekend, and the premium hikes outside the Covered California exchange are very steep and a hard burden on the middle class in California. Anthem, Health Net raised...
