Colon Cancer Risk is Greater for Women Who Smoke
Most of us have been admonished to never take up smoking. And we have heard about studies that demonstrate how smoking is tied with various diseases, especially for the women in our lives. But did you ever think the correlation would also be tied to colon cancer? One of our colleague&
Continue Reading →Shorter Health Reform Application Forms Are Being Drafted
May 14, 2013
We may have found some semblance of good news at the end of last month in a Washington Post article: “The latest drafts of health insurance applications related to the Affordable Care Act are shorter and easier to complete than previous editions that drew wide criticism for thei
Continue Reading →Employee Benefits News Provides a Timeline and To-do List for Employers
May 07, 2013
As you’ve been reading, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) becomes fully effective in 2014, when the employer mandate and public exchanges go into effect. That means that the rest of this year is about preparing. This EBN article provides six compliance dea
Continue Reading →The Convergence of Health and Retirement Plans
Apr 17, 2013
A recent SmartBrief post states that “Employee health plans increasingly are becoming the responsibility of workers as incentives for achieving health and wealth converge, a Manning & Napier white paper says. The impetus is the rising cost of employer health benefits as stra
Continue Reading →Survey Says: More employers considering exchanges for retiree health coverage
Apr 10, 2013
We’ve all been hearing about the anticipated changes for 2014. Specifically, state run health insurance exchanges. However, too many consumers have not thought about employers considering using these exchanges as part of their employee benefit package, let alone the benefit pa
Continue Reading →Wellness Programs They are a Changing
Here’s a part of the PPAC Act you may not have thought about before. You know those incentive breaks some employees get for improving their health, like losing weight or stopping smoking? Some of those look like they will change in 2014. Those programs are called Health-Continge
Continue Reading →Online Doctor Care?
A New York Times article highlights an enterprising young doctor, Dr. Jay Parkinson, who wasn’t interested in a stereotypical practice. Instead, he started his own company, Sherpaa, and “saw” patients by email and text messages. He’s grown his company to “
Continue Reading →One Company Containing Healthcare Costs with Wellness Programs
Mar 21, 2013
A recent Smart Brief article highlights how one family-owned company, Sunnen Corp., has contained healthcare costs. The company “based in the St. Louis area, has an on-site wellness clinic for its 465 employees, along with wellness programs that have helped keep health care cost
Continue Reading →Covered California published a Health Inurance Policy Chart
Mar 12, 2013
Covered California is California’s insurance exchange starting in 2014. Some basic differences between the plans are highlighted in their chart as per the Blue Shield email received saying “…the California Exchange website released information on benefits, resources,
Continue Reading →Finding the Best Healthcare Providers for Your Needs
At Geldin Insurance Services, we’re constantly researching different healthcare providers in cities like San Bernardino, Anaheim and Long Beach so we can supply our clients with the insight and information they need to choose the right type of health insurance. So what should you look
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