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Do You Need a Less Expensive Health Insurance Plan?Is Your Employer Group Satisfied with Your Current Health Insurance?Are You Confident Employer Groups Will Be Protected From Health Insurance Company Price Increases?If Not Then Contact NASRO & Discover New Options - 800-638-8113 or Fax in Your Census to 800-562-8588
NASRO is the private non-profit solution to achieving affordable health care. We are a cost effective third party administrator in Washington State of affordable group health insurance, dental, vision, life and disability plans. We service both individuals, retirees and employer groups of all sizes. Big changes in health insurance are coming, that we have been fighting for going on 17 years. We expect to be part of that change going forward with new plans that will be implemented starting three years after the federal legislation is passed. If you or your organization need a more affordable health insurance plan we suggest you not delay acting through NASRO. It will be three years before new plans will be available and when the new plans arrive NASRO will continue to offer our services to supplement those offered through the government. NASRO is also a non-profit association, founded by health care consultant and activist Robert Gaw, that is your advocate and a humanitarian organization for the common good. NASRO is also a trusted independent organization that provides accurate information on the strengths and weaknesses of the health insurance carriers and their plans. NASRO is a seventeen year old provider of affordable health insurance, with lower premiums for Washington state residents. We are an organization that supports Washington State and Oregon citizen efforts to make affordable health care available to all state residents and to move to providing universal health coverage, with a public option this year. Washington State Individual Health Insurance Washington State Health Insurance for Non Profits, Businesses and Public Sector Groups of All Sizes Washington State Self Insured, Self Administered Plans with Major Savings From the Country's Leading PPO Network
Longtime Consumer Advoate, Robert Gaw, NASRO President & Founder, is Keeping the Pressure on for Affordale Washington Health Insurance with Support for Universal Coverage NASRO is able to asssit any state resident with their Washington health insurance problems in part because we are a non profit, but also because we work with Washington health insurance staff that is very dedicated and experienced. Our local health insurance and health care professionals are not just working for a living, but our also offering their leadership and have the skill sets to really assist any state resident or employer group with direct straight answers to questions about benefits choices, cost and which health plan provider network is best for you or your employees. There are no complicated telephone matrixes, waits or impersonal service from out of state telemarketing centers when you call NASRO . Every person and every company is important and our answers to your questions are accurate and consistent. The people who answer our phones know the most about the plans, the regulations and the enrollment process of anyone associated with our organization. That is just the opposite from for profit companies where individuals and small group service are staffed with entry level personnel. Please consider the large number of plan choices from all of Washington's and Oregon's health insurance carriers that NASRO has available. RegenceGroup Health Cooperative HMO & POSLifeWiseKaiser Permanente of the NorthwestPremera Blue CrossAssurisPacifiCare/United HealthCareHealth NetAetnaThe Impact of Health Insurance Reform Every day that goes by that Washington State health insurance is allowed to continue individual medical underwriting and deny people affordable Washington health insurance coverage is a major waste of resources. It ruins more families and makes Washington weaker in the global marketplace, as this practice contributes to the annual rise in health insurance prices. Hopefully government regulation will soon do away with this practice. That still leaves employer groups with the major problem of controling costs and preventing the health insurance & health care companies from shifting costs from individuals to employer groups. From our 28 years in the industry we know that the health insurance carrier profits are squeezed in one sector, they move like the air in a balloon over to another area. NASRO can stop this practice from happening. For more information please call 800-638-8113 or email NASRO and request a proposal. Case StudiesA self employed business owner and spouse from Seattle in their 40's with two children, all in good health, with no chronic medical conditions has just received a major rate increase from their insurance company. NASRO is able to take the time to review the situation and make recommendations on some of the newest plans available from well respected Washington State carriers that can lower the monthly premium increase. NASRO is fighting for health care reform that will outlaw the practice of individual medical underwriting as part of a new federal law. Although we have said this before over the past decades, we now believe this typee of basic reform will become law very soon. A small non-profit in Spokane is seeing its budget cut due to the ongoing recession and is receiving continued rate increases from its health insurance carrier. We know the private health insurance industry unfairly rates up small employer groups compared to larger employer groups. NASRO offers a total review of the benefit options that provide access to outpatient care, prescription drug coverage and inpatient care with some cost sharing. Capabilities
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Affordable Washington Health Insurance PlansIndividuals, Self Employed Persons, and Small Business, Cooperatives and Non-Profits from 1 to 500 EmployeesPlease call NASRO Washington State Health Insurance Options at 800-216-2505 to discuss the rates, benefits and providers of the NASRO endorsed Washington health insurance plans underwritten by leading Washington health insurance carriers that we have available to our members.
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Regence Blue Shield
About Regence Blue ShieldRegence now has coverage available for people and businesses in Clark County Premera Blue Cross Group Health Cooperative
New plans for individuals and families, freelancers, sole proprietors and the self employed Group Health Health Savings Account Plan KPS Kaiser Permanente of the Northwest Kaiser has good coverage options available for people and businesses in Clark County Asuris Northwest Health
PacifiCare Additional NASRO Services Coming SoonDental PlansLife Insurance and Long Term DisabilityMet Life Insurance CompanyUNUMWest Coast LifeNASRO ServiceWhat people are saying about NASRO!I have nothing but praise for the good folks at NASRO ( National Association of Socially Responsible Organizations ). If you have ever dealt with insurance providers, you know that the usual goal of the person who answers the phone is to say " no " and hang up as quickly as possible. My experience with NASRO could not have been more different. They actually did the math on whether it would be better for me to stick with COBRA for 18 months before switching to the NASRO plan. The one time I actually had a problem with coverage for a medical condition, they not only straightened it out, but also remembered to ask me if I was feeling better after the procedure. Deborah Elizabeth Finn P.S. Full disclosure. NASRO does not compensate me in any way for praising it immoderately. I am just a fan. NASRO's Members Include
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Tuesday, March 18, 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:
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).
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