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Cigna + Oscar expand into LA, OC, & San Diego
As of April 1st, 2021, the Cigna + Oscar small group health insurance plans will be available in more regions across California. This is an exciting new partnership between Cigna, one of the largest health insurance carriers focused primarily with large businesses,...
Cigna & Oscar Partner Up in the Bay Area
One of the most interesting partnerships in the health insurance industry recently is the partnership between Cigna & Oscar which started offering small business plans in the Bay area in the 3rd quarter of 2020. With the combination of Cigna's large provider...
How do insurance pay for COVID-19 & Free Preventative Care
While we are still in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic which has impacted Americans for more than a year now, depending on your health insurance plan many insurance carriers are still waiving the member cost-shares for the testing, treatment, and vaccination for...
Oscar helps their members to stay fit during Covid-19
Oscar Health is one of the fastest-growing health insurance carriers in the Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Francisco area and, in 2021, Oscar just implemented new perks for their members to stay fit during the pandemic, besides offering an affordable and...
Extended Special Enrollment Period Through May 15th due to COVID-19
On January 28th, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to allow uninsured Americans to still apply for health insurance from February 15th to May 15th, 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This allows people who are currently uninsured to be able...
Prop 22 Health Insurance Stipends
California's Proposition 22, also known as App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative, was passed during the 2020 election. The proposition excludes app-based drivers from companies such as Uber, Lyft, Amazon Flex, Grubhub, and others from Assembly...
Steps to Register your Health Insurance Policy
By now, you should have received your 2021 health insurance subscriber ID card. Be sure you register your insurance card online, which allows you to easily find doctors who are in your health plan's network, review your benefits, view your claim history and make your...
1095 Tax Documents are now being mailed out
With the new year comes a new you but also, unfortunately, dealing with taxes for last year. When you file your 2020 taxes later this year (Tax day is Thursday, April 15th), you will need to make sure that you have your 1095 tax document which will be distributed by...
Feeling stressed during the pandemic? Try teletherapy
Many of us could not imagine that the pandemic is taking this long and that we still experience an increase in Covid-19 cases. This, along with the most recent political events of the riots at the capital and economic uncertainty creating enormous stress on many...
How will health insurance change under President Elect Biden?
Under president-elect Joe Biden, we will likely see an expansion of the Affordable Care Act depending on a few key events. For one, how will the Supreme Court rule on the current challenge to the ACA? Secondly, will the Democrats control the Senate after the runoff...