NASRO Welcomes ObamaCare and Looks Forward to Working on Its Implementation

Montana consumers are too sophisticated to not notice the ever rising costs that are being shifted from the health insurance companies, the doctors and the large employers to the Montana health care consumer in the form of higher deductibles, co-pays and most importantly premium costs.

NASRO is a cost effective, socially responsible third party administrator and broker of health insurance and other benefits. Contact NASRO or call us at 800-638-8113

Capabilities

• Montana Health Insurance for Individuals
• Montana Health Insurance for Students
• Montana Health Insurance for the Self Employed
• Health Insurance for People Moving to Montana
• Health Insurance for Graduating Students
• Health Insurance for People on COBRA
• Health Insurance for Early Retirees under 65
• Health Insurance for Small Businesses
• Health Insurance for Non-Profits

Types of Coverage

• Traditional Health Insurance Plans
• Preferred Provider Organization Plans(PPOs)
• Health Maintenance Organization Plans(HMOs)
• High Deductible Plans
• Health Savings Account Plans(HSAs)
• Dental Plans
• Dental Insurance Plans
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance

Affordable Montana Health Insurance Plan Choices

Blue Cross of Montana

United HealthCare

Assurant Insurance Company

Celtic Insurance Company

Dental Plans

Delta Dental

Aetna

Blue Cross

Assurant Dental

Life Insurance & Long Term Disability

Met Life Insurance Company

UNUM Life Insurance Company

West Coast Life Insurance Company

For More Information About NASRO and to Speak to a NASRO Representative Toll Free at 800-638-8113

National Assocaition of Socially Responsible Organizations

NASRO Western Office

609 Deep Valley Drive

Suite 200

Rolling Hills/Palos Verdes,

California

90274

800-638-8113

Fax - 800-562-8588

 
Specializing in Affordable Montana
Health Insurance Plans and Employee Benefits for

• Employers who want to do the socially responsible thing

• Self employed people who want to talk to knowledgeable people with independent advice

• Free agent independent contractors whose growing numbers NASRO is leveraging to change the economics of health insurance

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800-638-8113

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

FCC: Health Data Exchanges To Need More Broadband Support

At the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced multiple recommendations involving new funding and regulations for broadband Internet connections that support health IT exchange, Government Health IT reports.

The recommendations stem from an FCC survey that found the U.S. lacks sufficient broadband connections to meet criteria for "meaningful use" of electronic health records that will determine whether health care providers are eligible for incentive payments under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package. 

The survey found that as many as 3,600 small practices do not have even basic broadband services, while thousands of other locations face price disparities of as much as $45,000 each year for the same services available in better connected areas.

Recommendations

To address such access problems, FCC proposes:

• Changing its Rural Health Care Program to use the initiative's annual $400 million budget to establish a health care broadband access fund to assist health care providers and other institutions in purchasing broadband services;
• Establishing a health care broadband infrastructure fund to aid providers in expanding broadband networks where the existing infrastructure is lacking; and
• Changing the way providers are reimbursed for handling "e-care" distributed over broadband links, which providers have said is one of the biggest barriers to health IT adoption.

FCC wants to link funding as closely as possible to meaningful use to ensure that the money goes to locations following the guidance of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

The recommendations are part of FCC's upcoming National Broadband Plan that it is expected to deliver to Congress by March 17  (Robinson, Government Health IT, 3/2).