If you have been able to take your eyes off of the gripping action of the summer olympics, you may have noticed that the health insurance rate increase applications continue to be posted onto the Department of Financial Services (DFS) website. HCFANY has been working diligently to comb through the rate increase requests and accompanying documents, […]
It has not ceased to amaze me just how many stories of people who have been helped by the ACA continue to come out of the woodwork. The most recent one to hit the media’s attention is that of 31 year-old Arijit Gurha, a graduate student at the University of Arizona who was recently diagnosed […]
For many women, the fight for insurance coverage of women’s preventive health services has been a very long one. But, thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women will no longer need to worry about getting much of the preventive health care they need because of the costs associated. A new provision in the ACA is scheduled to go into […]
That’s right – its health insurance rate review time! This means that our health insurance plans are now diligently submitting their proposed rate increases to the Department of Financial Services (DFS) for approval. Some of you may have already received a letter from your health plan letting you know that they plan to “adjust” your […]