Understanding Preventive Care Coverage

One of the changes to Healthcare over the past year included the coverage of recommended preventive services without charging out of pocket costs through the Affordable Care Act. With this change, many Americans have gone to the doctor for covered screenings including eye chart vision screenings, mammograms, and colonoscopies. However, confusion arises if they receive a bill for these screenings.

It is important as significant changes are made to fully understand what specifically is covered by your health plan. For instance, you may want to be aware of the following regarding Preventive Care Covered Services:

Price Your Prescriptions!

When it comes to health care costs, no one wants a surprise. We can do our best to control costs by going to in network providers, understanding any exclusions on our plan coverage, and having our preventive screenings. Now, through your Anthem.com log in, you can price out your prescription medicine!

FAQ : How does the new dependent age extension work?

As the face of healthcare continues to change, many questions arise regarding the specifications those changes. The dependent age extension has brought up many questions from employers, employees, and dependents, so we have attempted to make an easy overview guide to answer those questions.

Keeping Track of Group Plan Information

Sometimes the amount of information that a plan administrator is responsible to keep track of is overwhelming. Just like your personal benefits information, there can be multiple carriers, groups numbers, policy details, and contact information, all of which are essential to organize so that your group's plans can operate properly.

In order to help simplify this process for you, we have created a worksheet where you can input all pertinent information including:

HIPAA FAQ #2: How long is my HIPAA form good for?

Having insurance coverage is a wonderful thing, especially when your coverage works properly. However, sometimes issues do arise, and it is necessary for the McGohan Brabender Customer Care Team to step in and work as the advocate for the member. When this happens and the employee would prefer that we follow up with their fully insured group administrator instead of directly with them, we are required by law to have a signed HIPAA form.

In order to make this process easier, an employee can opt to sign a HIPAA form that allows their group administrator to receive information regarding their coverage and claims for an entire calendar year. In order to do so, the employee needs to:

MB's Customer Care Blog is Now Linked to Twitter and Facebook

MB has linked it's MB Customer Care blog to both its Twitter and Facebook Accounts for your convenience.  As a reminder, you can follow McGohan Brabender on Twitter (MB_benefits), LinkedIn, Facebook and Blogger (http://mbcustomercare.blogspot.com/).