The Department of Health and Human Services recently revealed details about new laws for health insurers. In a previous blog, pointed out how those laws help you and your family. In this blog, I go over more new rules, and how those are going to help your family with health insurance. The new rules make it clear that health insurance plans must cover items and services in a minimum of 10 categories that were defined by the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Each category is defined as “essential health benefits”. Those categories include: ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity … Continue reading →

The Department of Health and Human Services has released information that private insurance companies have been waiting to hear. It gives them more specific details about how to comply with the regulations set forth by the Affordable Care Act. Here is how this information will help you and your family. The Affordable Care Act was signed in 2010. Small portions of it have gone into effect, little by little, since then. The Department of Health and Human Services has released the next piece of the puzzle. This is something that private insurance companies have been waiting to hear. The new … Continue reading →

Geneva College, in Pennsylvania, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit is another one that is in opposition to the requirement that employers offer coverage for birth control in their employer sponsored health insurance. It is unlikely to be the last lawsuit on this issue. Geneva College is a Christian college that is located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1848 by the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The college, together with attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund, (which is a Christian civil rights group), has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh. The … Continue reading →