Benefit Insight

Itasca,  IL,  October 4, 2007 - - Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the  acquisition  of  BIS  Insurance  Services, Inc. located in Sacramento, California.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded  in  1979,  BIS  Insurance  Services,  Inc. is an employee benefits insurance  broker  that  provides  customized benefits  programs  to their clients  in  Northern  California.   […]

United Benefit Advisors: Annual Benchmark Survey Shows Average Annual Health Plan Cost is $6,881 Per Employee; Largest Percentage of CDHP Adopters Comes from Employers with 25-100 Employees

United Benefit Advisors (UBA), (http://benefits.com), an alliance of 142 of the nation’s premier independent benefit advisory firms, today released the results of its third annual employer-sponsored health plan benchmark […]

The third of our new series points out the basics of HMO Plans - Health Maintenance Organizations - and the reason for choosing a Primary Care Physician (PCP). This and all our other videos are available on our website, via YouTube and GoogleVideo.
- Simon Hill

In the second in our new series of educational videos, Vinny Catalano explains the basics of prescription drug plans - terms such as “generic”, “formulary”/”non-formulary” and the use of mail order. The video is available on our website, via YouTube and GoogleVideo.
- Simon Hill

Benefit Insurance Services is very pleased to share the first in a series of short, unbiased educational videos helping to explain the basics of benefit plans to employees and consumers. #1 in the series is titled “Health Plan Definitions” and features Vinny Catalano speaking about basic terms such as co-pay, deductible and maximum out-of-pocket.
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In a communication sent by the company this week it was announced:
“Kaiser Permanente leadership recently made a decision that we will not send out bills for hospital inpatient and other hospital related services that are over six months old for members enrolled in deductible plans. We will not be back billing […]

Blue Shield of California recently launched an innovative marketing campaign, called “Chatbox.”
They setup a mobile recording booth on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento, and asked people to “tell us your health insurance story.” Take a look at the Making Of
The resulting “talking heads” are featured in TV ads […]

Nearly all employers, regardless of size or industry, have a clear interest in expanding initiatives to help employees manage their personal health more effectively, both as a means to lower plan costs and to have a more stable, productive workforce, according to results released today from United Benefit Advisors’ (UBA) 2007 Employer
Survey. The annual survey […]