Small Businesses: Get Ahead with the 2024 Special Enrollment Period

by | Oct 31, 2023 | Affordable Health Insurance, Blue Shield of CA, Covered California, Disability Insurance, Group Health Insurance, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Member Benefits, Small Business, Special Enrollment Period

Every year, small businesses have a special window to start a small group health insurance policy with small group health insurance carriers with relaxed underwriting. This period is known as a Special Enrollment Period and starts on November 15th through December...

Oscar Individual Insurance is leaving California

by | Jul 21, 2023 | Affordable Health Insurance, Covered California, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica, Member Benefits

While on its first-quarter earnings call with newly appointed CEO, Mark Bertolini, Oscar Health announced its plans to exit the California marketplace by the end of this year 2023. This strategic decision is the result of a thorough evaluation of performance metrics...
Changes in Medicaid as the Pandemic Era Expires

Changes in Medicaid as the Pandemic Era Expires

by | Mar 16, 2023 | Affordable Health Insurance, Benefits Administration, Blue Shield of CA, CalSavers, Covered California, COVID-19, Health Insurance Brentwood, Health Insurance Pacific Palisades, Health Insurance Santa Monica

States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protection coverage enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic will expire. In California, the state welfare program is called Medi-Cal and not Medicaid, as it is called in the other states. The upheaval,...