COBRA & Health Insurance
COBRA Q&A Series 3: Retroactive Premium Rate Changes
Today’s question for my COBRA Q&A Series involves “back billing” or making a retroactive change to a QB’s premium rates. As always with this series, my goal with these posts is to create something of a “knowledge base” over time with these posts, but please always keep in mind when reading these that I am not an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA Q&A Series 2: Incorrect Election Notice
In this next installment of my COBRA Q&A Series we’ll look at a question involving an incorrect COBRA Election Notice (also known as a COBRA Specific Rights Notice). As always with this series, my goal with these posts is to create something of a “knowledge base” over time with these posts, but please always keep in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA Q&A Series 1: QBs & New Employer Plans
This is the first in an ongoing series of posts which I’ll add to over time as we receive interesting COBRA compliance administration questions from our customers and industry friends. We’re unique in the US healthcare benefits administration industry in that before we built a technology and services company to serve this industry we first [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985)
Why am I writing a post about this law?
COBRApoint (our suite of enterprise SaaS portal applications) empowers employers and third-party administrators (including insurance carriers, administrative service organizations, human resources outsourcers, professional employer organizations, etc.) to administer COBRA compliance and other forms of health insurance continuation such as for retirees. Combined, COBRA continuants and retirees in [...]
The Real Motivation for Microsoft HealthVault & Google Health?
I think I must be simple minded.
Since Microsoft launched its HealthVault beta on October 4, I’ve had no trouble finding opinions on whether or not the service is viable. A representative sampling can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here though a simple searchwill return many, many more. By the way, did that last [...]
SaaS Powered BPO
Jeff Kaplan writes an insightful blog on trends in IT services with a strong focus on SaaS technologies which I’ve subscribed to for some time. This morning I found myself dancing a little jig when I discovered his most recent post “SaaS and Business Processing Outsourcing Converging,” because this is exactly what we’re doing at COCO Development. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Thrill of the Blog
John (our founder & CEO) and I had a meeting this morning with a visionary insurance carrier to discuss their interest in leveraging our integrated suite of services to empower them to provide full-service COBRA administration for all of their policy holders. Two fun, first time, results occurred for me.
First, I got to say for the first time [...]
Paper, People, & Universal Healthcare
Question: How many people do health insurance carriers employ to manually enter data received on faxes into eligibility and claims systems?
My background is all technology. All of my previous companies built industry agnostic middleware solutions which we sold to hardcore IT teams. So the last two years have been a crash course for me in [...]
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