CaliforniaChoice, California’s small-group private exchange focusing on multiple carriers, defined contribution and employee choice, announced today a series of 11 seminars throughout the state expressly designed to help California’s health insurance brokers succeed in 2014.
CaliforniaChoice is one of the most experienced and successful small-group private health insurance exchanges in the nation.
The seminars will introduce brokers to California
Choice’s 2014 program, including its new portfolio of health plans and benefit plans, full and limited provider networks, and a new package of products and services available to all small businesses at no additional cost. Seminars begin in October and will be available throughout California; for dates and locations please visit
http://calchoiceevents.eventbrite.com/. Ron Goldstein, president and CEO of
CHOICEAdministrators, which operates California
Choice, will open each seminar, and Kevin Timone, national vice president, will walk brokers through the new portfolio.
CaliforniaChoice’s 2014 portfolio will include access to multiple provider networks and broad choice among many of the state’s best-known and most widely sought-after health plans including Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Health Net, Kaiser Permanente, Sharp Health Plan and Western Health Advantage. With these health plans comes a wide selection of coverage tiers, each with various benefit options, deductibles and copayment levels. These range from platinum (the richest benefits) to gold, silver and bronze levels. Employers and their employees participating in CaliforniaChoicein 2014 will have HMO, EPO and PPO benefit plans from which to choose. In addition, CaliforniaChoice will continue to offer a selection of dental, vision, chiropractic and life options while also unveiling its new Business Solutions Suite and Affordable Care Act Calculators.
Throughout its 17 year history, CaliforniaChoice has been offered exclusively through independent brokers, and Goldstein says that this commitment to brokers will continue in 2014.
Goldstein states that, “Given all of the changes that are being driven by the Affordable Care Act and other market forces, a broker’s role is now more critical than ever in helping provide the information and unbiased recommendations consumers and business owners need to make well-informed decisions.”
Exchanges, both public and private, are similar to health insurance “shopping malls” where consumers, employers, employees and brokers can compare plans side by side based on cost, provider network, and plan designs. CaliforniaChoice helped pioneer the exchange concept in the 1990s and has continued to be a leading advocate by educating the market about the benefits of exchanges. Today CaliforniaChoice currently serves more than 10,000 employers and 150,000 employees.
California
Choice is a division of
CHOICE Administrators, the nation’s leading developer and administrator of consumer-choice insurance exchange models. Further information is available at
www.calchoice.com.