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Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers

Valerie Ortiz

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Over the past 20 years, Valerie Ortiz has worn many hats at National Insurance Services. She currently heads up NIS’ Marketing Team where she helps to create and execute employee benefit communications based upon our public sector clients’ needs. Valerie brings order to the chaos and has a zeal for detail and a talent for organization.

Recent Articles by Valerie Ortiz

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Actuaries provide insight into 2015 health insurance costs

The American Academy of Actuaries recently suggested in a brief that public workers and other Americans may expect numerous changes to their health insurance benefits costs next year due to the...

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Will insurance benefits choices become more limited?

Health insurance networks are narrowing, according to The New York Times, and public workers may need to take care when they are on the exchanges during the next open enrollment period to analyze...

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HealthCare.gov may be more fiscally sound than state exchanges

The federal insurance marketplace cost less, on average, to run than the state health plan exchanges did, and now many are wondering whether state health insurance marketplaces are fiscally worth it...

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Report questions need for the employer mandate

The employer mandate provision within the Affordable Care Act has received much debate since the healthcare reform bill came into effect, but a new report from researchers at the Urban Institute...

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Enrollment found to be cheaper through federal insurance marketplace

According to a new report, the cost for the federal health insurance exchange to sign people up for insurance benefits was less than the cost for the state-run marketplaces to do the same.

The report...

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NJ residents have costly health insurance benefits

New Jersey residents who bought health insurance benefits through online broker eHealth.com during the open enrollment period purchased the most expensive policies in the country, The Star-Ledger...

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1 million in FL enrolled in health insurance benefits

Despite the federal marketplace's numerous technical issues, the Obama administration recently announced 1 million people in Florida signed up for health insurance benefits through the site,...

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Insurers question the 8 million sign-up figure

Health insurance carriers that had plans on the federal and state marketplaces have come forward to say most of their enrollees have paid their first premiums, but that there may be duplicate signups...

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Need to sign up for insurance benefits? You have few options

With the open enrollment period to sign up for health insurance benefits through the federal and state exchanges now largely over, many Americans have few options if they missed enrolling for health...

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Poll finds more Americans now have health insurance

A Gallup poll found only 13.4 percent of Americans didn't have health insurance in April, a 5 point drop from 2013's peak. However, Reuters reported other research has also surfaced that examined the...