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Reference Based Pricing – the Key to Solving the Health Insurance Industry’s Cost Issues?
By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA Vice President, Communications, OCAHU services. Medical miracles save millions of people a year and make people’s lives better. The problem is, the costs keep going up, and no one seems to care about doing anything to stop that....
HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates Sep-Oct 2017
From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc. Because Marilyn Monahan addressed HIPAA specifics regarding business associates, which all agents are to their employer...
The SB-562 Storm Continues to Build – Can We Stop It?
By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA, LPRT, OCAHU V.P. Communications & Public Affairs President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services It’s a wild time in the world of health insurance in California. As you’ve probably heard, unless you’ve...
HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates Jul-Aug 2017
Compliance Corner HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer July-August, 2017 The most important reportable incident was the WannaCry ransomware attack in May, 2017. HHS put out...
HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates May-Jun 2017
From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer May-June 2017 As an update on HHS/OCR enforcement actions, a few important settlements were reported in April. On April 12, 2017, HHS/OCR announced a HIPAA settlement based on...
California’s Insurance Industry Fight of the Decade – What SB-562 Can Do to Our State, Our Industry, and the People of California!
By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA Vice President, Communications, OCAHU President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc. Original Full-Length Article (Edited, shortened version appeared in the May-June Issue of the County of Orange...
Making Health Care Great Again Part 2
By: Dorothy Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA, LPRT, OCAHU V.P. Communications Published by The Orange County Association of Health Underwriters (OCAHU) and posted with permission of OCAHU Last issue, we took a preliminary look into the health insurance marketplace under the...
March and April 2017 Legal Briefing
By: Marilyn Monahan, Monahan Law Office Posted with permission from Monahan Law Office Published by The Orange County Association of Health Underwriters (OCAHU) and posted with permission of OCAHU This is a summary of some recent developments of interest to...
HIPAA Privacy & Security Updates Mar-Apr 2017
From Dorothy Cociu, COIN Editor and HIPAA Privacy & Security Consultant & Trainer President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc. March-April, 2017 There is an important deadline of March 1 for any Covered Entity or Business Associates...
“Silent” Returns to IRS
Posted with permission from Monahan Law Office Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), you may owe an individual shared responsibility penalty if you did not have qualifying health care coverage for every month of 2016. When you complete your 2016 Form 1040, you will...
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