As your business partner, HNE is committed to keeping you informed of changes to the healthcare industry, particularly those which could have an impact on your business.  

We have reviewed the Federal Healthcare Reform law and have identified the required changes that we will implement for our plans to comply.  These include:

• Extension of dependent age coverage
• Elimination of cost-sharing for preventive services
• Prohibition against lifetime benefit caps
• New claims and appeals rules

For the most part, HNE already is in alignment with the majority of these new provisions as a result of our ongoing compliance with Massachusetts healthcare reform and our innovative $0 copay for preventive services.

In the interest of keeping the administration of these changes as simple as possible for you, our members, and our other business partners, we will implement changes for all fully funded plans for an effective date of October 1, 2010. We also will work with our self-insured clients on their benefits to ensure that their plans are in compliance.

Click the link below to view the content of a notice that we are sending to all of our fully funded employer groups. The notice describes in detail the changes that we are making.

 http://www.hne.com/HNE_Brokers/Blast/