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On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into law the “21st Century Cures Act” which offers relief for employers reimbursing individual health insurance premiums. The new law allows small [...]

Now that open enrollment is here, many New Yorkers will be looking for their individual health insurance plans and options. Each year during this time many questions come up about what type of [...]

Obamacare has changed the rules for health insurance for self employed people. Prior to implementation of Obamacare or The Affordable Care Act (ACA), self employed individuals could qualify for a [...]

Did you know the number of people who will buy individual health insurance is estimated to grow to 31 million by 2020? In a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), Individual [...]

Health Republic Insurance of New York has announced it will cease doing business and stop selling health insurance policies by the end of 2015. Health Republic was formed during the passing of [...]

Recently the Department of Labor (DOL) and Health and Human Services (HHS) offered temporary relief for small employers reimbursing individual policies. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) guidance was [...]

Now that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been in around for a little over a year now, have you noticed that some health services are now being covered which were not covered in your previous [...]

Group health insurance premiums continue to rise despite political promises that The Affordable Care Act will “level out” health insurance premiums.  Small businesses can avoid Double [...]

What was once considered perfectly legal under IRS guidelines which allowed employers to reimburse employees for purchasing individual insurance coverage is now strictly forbidden by new [...]

Health Reimbursement Accounts for employees is a strategy that employers can use to reduce group health insurance premiums. A Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), or also known as a Health [...]