The Phia Group Blog

By: Kendall Jackson, Esq.   Self-funding health benefits is an appealing approach for many employers due to its flexibility. Employers can customize and tailor benefits to meet their employees’ needs, exercise control over healthcare spending, and implement measures to minimize…

By: Jon Jablon, Esq.   For years, the IRS’s HSA rules treated telemedicine like a threat: if your HDHP covered virtual visits before the deductible, your HSA eligibility disappeared. The idea was that people needed “skin in the game,” and…

By: Brady Bizarro, Esq. In a move that’s already generating buzz across the healthcare landscape, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently announced that the country’s largest health insurers have agreed to voluntarily streamline the controversial prior…

By: Nick Bonds, Esq. We all make mistakes. We overlook small things – often to no major consequence. But every now and then small mistakes can cause a ripple effect. Even minor oversights can make big waves. That may be…

By: David Ostrowsky The message has been well received by the giants of the health insurance industry: it’s time to ease up on prior authorizations. Whether it’s due to mounting criticism from patients and physicians, political pressure, or last December’s…

By: David Ostrowsky For a quarter century, Mifepristone, the medication used to block a hormone necessary for pregnancy development, has been widely used throughout America. If anything, over the past few years, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade…