Advanced Premium Tax Credit (financial assistance with premiums) are available to individuals with an income level of less than 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. Cost Share Subsidies (assistance with out-of-pocket costs) is available to individuals with an income of less than 250% of the Federal Poverty Level

Required information - people will need to submit when applying for subsidy

•      Names of all family members

•      Social Security numbers of all applicants

•      Dates of birth

•      Gender and ethnicity

•      Employer name

•      Projected income for the upcoming year and sources of income

•      Certain deductions similar to those claimed on a federal income tax return 

According to Forbes the Obama administration has decided to delay the implementation of the Employer Mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to 2016. The delay is due to many insurers’ and employers’ time limitations  to comply with the mandate in order to work out logistics with separate health care providers. Some employers will now have more time before they have to offer insurance to their full-time workforce.

Federal officials stated “the reason for the ACA delay is many insurers and employers needed more time to comply because they used separate companies to help administer major medical coverage and drug benefits, with separate limits on out-of-pocket costs. In many cases, the companies have separate computer systems that cannot communicate with one another.”

Changes for Mid-Sized Businesses
Employers with 50-99 workers will have until 2016 to comply with the mandate. This date represents the second delay of this controversial provision. The penalties were initially scheduled to go into effect in 2014, before being delayed last summer to 2015. The new delay gives mid-size businesses more time before facing the $2,000 or $3,000 penalties for failing to provide minimum essential coverage to eligible employees.

According to the Wall Street Journal the change for mid-sized businesses will impact about 2% of all American businesses and 7% of all workers, or 7.9 million people. Employers with fewer than 50 full-time equivalent workers currently have no obligation to provide coverage under the law.

 

Hello clients and friends, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as OBAMA CARE, is right around the corner. Whatever your political views,  likes or dislikes, October 1, 2013 the new Marketplace (Exchange) opens. Here you can see what is available, what choices you have, what your cost will be and can make application for coverage if you choose. Plans will become effective January 1 .2014.   I am hoping you have read my newsletters of the past 5 months and you have learned something. If not, you can access them now at www.judiwoodsagency.com or give me a call 239 2817378 or shoot me an email [email protected]

 

 Most important, know I am officially certified to help you navigate thru this new territory, assist with and help you submit applications for individual or group insurance.

 

 I have tried to keep you Informed on Reform* regarding all the facts and fiction circling around about this change in Health Insurance and the types of coverage required. There are some things viewed as positive and some things people are not pleased with. Regardless of all of that, you need to know what your rights are and what your responsibilities are.

 

Whether you are currently covered via your employee or are an employer, have individual coverage or are currently uninsured, look to Judi l Woods Agency for answers. Even if you are not currently insured with any products thru my agency, know, I am here to help! Therefore, get in touch with me today, you will be glad you did.

 

All referrals are accepted and appreciated. So pass this information to your friends and colleagues.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

*CIGNA

 

 

 

 

  

- Being overweight or gaining weight as an adult

- Family history of breast, ovarian or prostate cancer  

  

Mammography and rates of early detection over time  

As mammography screening rates have increased, more cases of breast cancer have been found at earlier stages, when they are most easily and successfully treated. During the 1980s and 1990s, diagnoses of early-stage breast cancer increased greatly. Since the late 1990s, these rates have remained steady. At the same time, diagnoses of advanced stage (metastatic) breast cancer have remained stable or dropped slightly.