Please enjoy this second issue of the PGC Quarterly!
Our goal is to provide you a quarterly update on the happenings within the healthcare industry, including news and feature articles. We hope to provide insight to the challenges and successes of regulation and legislation for the healthcare industry. Particularly since the first quarter of 2012 brought light to the controversy surrounding the health care reform arguments in the Supreme Court…
It’s April – spring is here and baseball has already started, so what could be better than that? Well maybe if my Cleveland Indians wouldn’t already have such a bad record, but I guess I am used to it…
Spring is in the air here in Boston and I was lucky enough to recently see a few spring training games for my beloved Cleveland Indians. I’m always optimistic in March and then reality sets in by July when it comes to my team! This is a great time for our industry to be optimistic too, as I feel we will end up on top by the end of this year, unlike my baseball team…
There is so much to discuss as to what has happened since our last newsletter. It seems like years have passed but its only been four weeks!
The wait is finally over as the Final Rules for the Summary of Benefits (“SBC”) and Coverage and Uniform Glossary Templates and Instructions have arrived. This guidance sets forth the rules for group health plans to draft the mandated SBCs for the first year of their application and we here at The Phia Group are prepared to assist you in crafting the SBCs…
A new year always brings hope for a new beginning, and 2012 is no different. Unfortunately in our business, the issues and problems that we had in 2011 don’t just go away – they linger and linger and just get bigger.
What a year this has been! At this time last year, we were hoping that 2011 would clarify the picture for all of us when it comes to health care reform. Unfortunately, as this year comes to a close, we can see that 2011 just brought more questions than answers…
November has been a weird month here in Boston. We enjoyed temperatures in the 60s for a number of days that outnumbered the warm days we saw last June. It’s been a real change from the blizzard we fought through last month. The weather has been very strange indeed, but unlike the climate, a constant is our goal at The Phia Group to be your one source for expertise on self funding and cost containment issues…
The temperature and leaves are beginning to fall here in Boston as the long cold winter awaits. What a wild month it has been since we last communicated. From the NAIC’s scathing report on stop loss to the mini-SPD requirements to the latest challenges to health care reform, who knows what the next few months will bring…
There is so much going on in our industry today that it’s beginning to make my head spin! From changes to health care reform to the latest news from the NAIC regarding stop loss insurance, there is plenty for us to discuss and strategize. We are holding webinars each and every month to tackle these issues as well as writing various articles to face the challenges we deal with every day.
Last week I got to spend three days in Washington, D.C. with my friends and family for a short road trip. I finally got to do what I have never done previously in all of my business trips to D.C. over the past 10 years – actually see the city and its great sights. From visiting every Smithsonian museum to hanging out at the Lincoln memorial at midnight, it showed me what a wonderful country we all live in and how lucky we all are to be Americans.
