Health Star Consulting launched its quarterly newsletter to provide clients and interested parties with updates. The newsletter introduces their new logo and redesigned website, which includes live chat functionality. It also notes that several provisions of the new healthcare reform law take effect for health plan years beginning on or after September 23, 2010. These include requiring dependent coverage until age 26, prohibiting denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions for children, and covering certain preventive care services without deductibles or co-insurance.

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e StarGazer Welcome New Clients
A hearty welcome is due to the following new
Inaugural Issue – June 2010 clients. We appreciate the trust they have
placed in our rm.
WITH THIS, WE LAUNCH THE HEALTH STAR CONSULTING, LLC QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER,
WHICH WILL BE PROVIDED TO OUR CLIENTS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES. • BLUE OCEAN PORTFOLIOS
CHESTERFIELD, MO
We are also pleased to introduce our new logo
and redesigned website at www.health-star.net. • CHAPEL OF THE LAKE
healthstar is new website also includes a new method of
contacting us via LIVE chat!
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LEXINGTON, IL
Many of you already know the name of the rm
was changed in December 2009 to Health Star Consulting, LLC. As stated on our website, • MIDWEST BANKCENTRE
ST. LOUIS, MO
“ e ‘star’ in our name signi es a navigational star providing guidance and direction to our
clients as new health care laws and regulations roll out and evolve. We strive to do our very
best to keep our clients at the top of the health bene t game by controlling costs and
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maintaining or enhancing coverages.” “Let our advance worrying become advance
thinking and planning.”
We value our client relationships and promise always to direct our best e orts to your service. -Sir Winston Churchill
Health Reform
e Patient Protection and A ordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, became law on
March 23, 2010. ere are several provisions of the law which will take e ect for health plan years beginning on or after September 23, 2010, which
for most, if not all, plans means October 1 or later.
ese early provisions of the law include the following:
• All plans o ering dependent coverage must allow for children to remain on their parent’s health insurance plan until age 26. is applies regardless of marital
status, full-time student status or nancial support. e Act provides a postponement of this requirement until 2014 to grandfathered plans provided the adult
child is eligible for other employer-sponsored health plan coverage.
• e law prohibits plans from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. “ is applies both to a child’s access to a plan and to his or her bene ts
once he or she is in the plan. (Sebelius)”
• All non-grandfathered plans must cover certain recommended preventive care services and immunizations on a rst-dollar bene t basis (i.e. without deductibles or
co-insurance). e Health Resources and Services Administration is to develop a listing of these preventive services prior to September 23, 2010.
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