The Phia Group Blog

  Unlike traditional “insurance,” like an individual would have through a health insurance marketplace, employer-sponsored self-funded health plans do not have a virtually unlimited pool of money from which they can pay medical claims. Employers choose self-funding since they can…

  The cost of insulin has long been a pain point for diabetic Americans. Now a solution may be in sight.   The House of Representatives passed an insulin cap bill at the end of March 2022. This bill would…

By: Kaitlyn MacLeod, Esq. Enforcement is almost here for one of the most cumbersome of the Transparency in Coverage obligations. That’s right – plans need to post their Machine-Readable Files on a publicly available website beginning July 1st. Technically, this…

By: Chris Aguiar, Esq. You know, in the modern information and technological age it is rather easy to forget that we are not in Kansas, anymore, i.e. the 1990s; anything you say or do on the internet can be accessed…

By: Nick Bonds, Esq. The baby formula shortage in the United States has been worsening for months. Our country’s supply was already squeezed by a perfect storm of pandemic-related supply chain issues and inflation costs. Then, with the detection of…

By: Micah Iberosi-Parnell, Esq. While the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade grabbed all the headlines last week, a recent decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit likely has a significant impact on…