The National Association of Socially Responsible Organizations (NASRO) is a cost effective third party administrator of health insurance and other benefits for Utah's and Colorado's self employed and small businesses! We are an umbrella non-profit business association that has been providing individuals and employer groups with more affordable health insurance plans for the past 17 years. NASRO can help you lower your costs.

We support Utah citizen efforts to provide affordable health insurance to all state residents. NASRO is staffed by well informed health insurance experts who are available to assist any state resident or organization with direct answers to questions about benefit choices,provider networks and cost. NASRO's staff have helped build some of the most successful health plans in the country that ended up being run for the benefit of the investors instead of the patients. Now we are working to develop new national plans that will actually be socially responsible.

Utah and Colodado 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 Utah health care consumer in the form of higher deductibles, co-pays and most importantly premium costs.

Find out your health insurance rates within minutes of speaking to our staff. Our health insurance proposals offer the best rates available. You can not obtain better rates even if you go directly to the insurance companies themselves.

Apply directly from an application you print out on your computer. Our staff will provide you with help completing the applications and will go through the questions with you line by line.

NASRO is active building a coalition of organizations in Utah that will once again allow us to offer a group health plan.

NASRO is lead by Robert Gaw, who has a 35 year record of working in Utah and other states to see that the promises of a world class health care system for all are kept.

If you are just finding out about the complexity and difficulties associated with finding a good health insurance plan or if you are unhappy with your current plan then please contact us.

Health Insurance Plan Choices

Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Utah

Asuris Northwest Health

Inter Mountain Health Care

Aetna

Cigna

United HealthCare

Assurant

Dental Plans

Delta Dental

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Long Term Disability

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

UNUM Life Insurance Company

West Coast Life Insurance Company

NASRO Administrators Is Working for Utah Small Businesses, Individuals and Self Employed People

                   NASRO Administrators Western Office

               101 California Street

               Suite 2450

               San Francisco,California

               94111

               Phone:800-638-8113

                   Fax: 800-562-8588

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).