{"id":653,"date":"2010-09-14T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Provider\/?p=653"},"modified":"2010-09-14T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T14:44:38","slug":"plan-changes-required-due-to-federal-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/plan-changes-required-due-to-federal-healthcare-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Changes Required Due to Federal Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As your business partner, HNE is committed to keeping<br \/>\nyou informed of changes to the healthcare industry,<br \/>\nparticularly those which could have an impact on your<br \/>\nbusiness. We have reviewed the Federal Healthcare<br \/>\nReform law and have identified the required changes<br \/>\nthat we will implement for our plans to comply. These<br \/>\ninclude:<br \/>\n\u2022 Extension of dependent age coverage<br \/>\n\u2022 Elimination of cost-sharing for preventive services<br \/>\n\u2022 Prohibition against lifetime benefit caps<br \/>\n\u2022 New claims and appeals rules<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, HNE already is in alignment with<br \/>\nthe majority of these new provisions as a result of our<br \/>\nongoing compliance with Massachusetts healthcare<br \/>\nreform and our innovative $0 copay for preventive<br \/>\nservices.<\/p>\n<p>In the interest of keeping the administration of these<br \/>\nchanges as simple as possible for you, our members, and our<br \/>\nother business partners, we will implement changes for all<br \/>\nfully funded plans for an effective date of October 1, 2010.<br \/>\nWe also will work with our self-insured clients on their benefits<br \/>\nto ensure that their plans are in compliance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hne.com\/HNE_Brokers\/Blast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cllick here for more information:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: \u2022 Extension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notice-of-changes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-ax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}