Understanding Health Insurance
January 30, 2024
10am PT | 12pm CT | 1pm ET
Duration: 90 minutes
Course Level: Beginner
This webinar presented key tips for navigating health insurance, including considerations to make when comparing plans and how to minimize out-of-pocket costs.
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Accreditation Information
During this live and interactive webinar, social workers, nurses, and board-certified patient advocates in attendance will learn important health insurance terms, considerations to make when picking a plan, and how to minimize out-of-pocket costs.
This webinar will provide social workers, nurses, and other types of health care professionals with a foundation to help patients make decisions about their health insurance options and provide appropriate referrals. All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real time via a chat box.
Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who meet the requirements will be awarded 1.5 contact hour.
90 minutes of instruction/60 minutes = 1.5 contact hour
Triage Cancer, #1689, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2023 to 08/26/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credit.
Triage Cancer is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0626. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours.
Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.
Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.
- 12:00-12:05am Central – Welcome, Speaker Introduction
- 12:05am-12:55pm Central – Overview of the basic terms used in health insurance, how to calculate the maximum annual cost of a plan, and considerations to make when choosing a health insurance plan.
- 12:55pm–1:00pm Central – Questions
- 1:00-1:10pm Central – Post Test
- Attendees will be able to explain the basic terms used in health insurance.
- Attendees will be able to calculate the maximum annual cost of a plan.
- Attendees will be able to delineate what to take into consideration when choosing a health insurance plan.
In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.
Post-test & Evaluation
Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.
The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.
Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.
While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.
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Expert
Presenting this webinar is Triage Cancer COO, Monica Bryant, Esq.
