According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, flu season in the U.S. tends to peak during late December to early February. In California, the fluctuating climate conditions due to El Nino are increasing the risk of influenza for those of us looking to outsmart the virus.

In observance of the Christmas holiday, PCMI’s corporate and regional offices will be closed on Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25. For the New Year’s holiday, our offices will be closed Thursday, December 31 and Friday, January 1. 

To assist you in keeping ACA health care reporting requirements top of mind in the new year, we’re providing you with this infographic on what steps you need to take to be compliant during the 2016 tax season. After reviewing the infographic, please discuss with your PCMI account manager if you should have any questions, 

As we discussed in an earlier article this year on specialty drugs, these type of medications play an important role in treating employees with persistent and complex health conditions such as oncology, hepatitis C, HIV, MS, Parkinson

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that is costing billions in U.S. dollars –at least $245 billion according to a 2012 study commissioned by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

PCMI congratulates Jaquelyn Parungao, who was recently promoted to regional sales manager in October. Jaquelyn joined PCMI in 2013 as part of the sales and account management team. Check out her professional background, new role and why she enjoys working at PCMI in our recent Q&A with Jaquelyn.

As health care costs continue to climb, providing employee benefits gets increasingly challenging each year for your self-insured clients. What are helpful to them are fresh ideas and strategies to keep their health cost increases to a minimum. 

You may have seen the story in September involving a CEO of a pharmaceutical company who, after recently buying the company, raised the price of their specialty medicine Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill – an increase of 4,000%!

To round out your medical plan, PCMI offers a range of ancillary benefit services that you or your client can add on to your current plan.

On October 1, the ICD medical code - called ICD-10 –was launched and now must be used for all health treatment reporting.   The ICD medical code is used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures, and the change may impact PCMI plan participants.  

What is ICD-CM?