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Free Benefits Included in Your Health Insurance
If you are enrolled in an Affordable Care Act-compliant health insurance plan, there are plenty of free services included with your plan. All health insurance plans are required to cover your annual wellness exam free of charge. Other free preventative services...
Special Enrollment Period for Health Insurance Begins
Starting February 1st, 2022, the annual Open Enrollment Period ends and the Special Enrollment Period begins. During the Special Enrollment Period from February 1st to November 1st, 2022, anyone seeking to enroll in or change their existing health insurance must have...
Risk Insurance is a better name for Term Life insurance
Half of all Americans do not carry life insurance. Maybe the association with death and the overestimating of the cost of life insurance are keeping so many Americans away from considering buying life insurance. I prefer to call life insurance risk insurance, as you...
Required Tax Forms for Minimum Essential Health Coverage & Premium Assistance
Covered California will begin to send out the 1095 B and 3895 tax forms in the 3rd and 4th week of January. When you file your taxes later this year, you will need to make sure that you have your 1095 tax document which will be distributed by either Covered CA...
Health Insurance Member Registration & Perks
By now, you should have received your 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...
Complimentary Small Business Benefits Administration
Many small businesses and start-up businesses want to attract their employees with easy electronic employee onboarding, online benefits administration, and even payroll coordination. Solid Health Insurance Service is offering a complimentary electronic onboarding...
Special Enrollment Period for Small Businesses in California
Every year, small group health insurance carriers offer a special window for small businesses to start a small group health insurance policy with relaxed underwriting. This period is known as a Special Enrollment Period and starts on November 15th through December...
Major Changes to the ACA Silver 70 Plans in 2022 in California
Starting in 2022, we are seeing some positive changes to the Silver 70 plan benefits for both Covered CA & off-exchange (direct-to-carrier) plans. The Silver plans are the most popular plan selection of the 4 metal tier options (Bronze, Silver, Gold &...
What’s new for Anthem Blue Cross in 2022?
In 2022, Anthem Blue Cross is expanding into more regions of California for the individual and family health insurance market. Anthem will be expanding into North Bay, Sacramento, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda & San Mateo. That means Anthem will offer...
What is changing for Blue Shield of California in 2022
In 2022, Blue Shield of California will have some major changes as well as expansions of some of their plans into new regions. Blue Shield will be expanding its Trio HMO network into Santa Barbara & Monterey for the individual and family market in 2022. In Santa...