Blog Mar 30, 2021 By: Vericred The Top Five Questions Carriers Ask About ICHRA While most carriers are aware of ICHRA’s existence, there are still several topics on which carriers have critical...
Blog Mar 24, 2021 By: Vericred Shop-by-Doctor: The Health Plan Shopper’s Secret Weapon During Enrollment To avoid the potentially high cost of out-of-network care, most consumers begin their plan shopping process with one question: “Which...
Blog Jan 15, 2021 By: Dan Langevin Lightening up the year-end blackout period for employee benefits Vericred's Blackout Period Change Management effectively eliminates the hassle of changing current-year plan details during open...
Blog Dec 18, 2020 By: Vericred Eight Reasons ICHRAs May Transform Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Whether the shift toward ICHRAs will be as tectonic as the transition to 401(k)s remains to be seen. But there are many reasons to think it...
Blog Dec 7, 2020 (Updated: Dec 8, 2020) By: Michael Levin Covid is forcing a reckoning for the health insurance industry—and that’s good Carriers and brokers who respond to the Covid-19 pandemic with speed and creativity will emerge from this crisis with more efficient...
Blog Aug 20, 2020 (Updated: Nov 11, 2020) By: Vericred How we migrated a 1TB database from Heroku to AWS Aurora with (almost) no downtime Earlier this year we decided that we wanted to move our PostgreSQL database for the Vericred API from Heroku to AWS Amazon Aurora. Read...
Blog May 12, 2020 (Updated: Nov 18, 2020) By: Vericred Using Rust to Speed Up Your Ruby Apps: Part 4 — Testing Blog series on why we chose Rust, how to test and integrate Rust into an existing Ruby codebase, and how executing code outside of Ruby's...
Blog Apr 14, 2020 (Updated: Nov 18, 2020) By: Vericred InsurTech and Benefits Platforms Launch Initiatives in Response to COVID-19 Many tech platforms are addressing the challenges brought forth by COVID-19 by developing innovative solutions. ie. broker navigations,...
Blog Apr 3, 2020 (Updated: Nov 18, 2020) By: Vericred Health Insurance Carriers Launch Initiatives in Response to COVID-19 U.S. health insurance carriers are stepping up in response to COVID-19. See how insurance carriers are responding -- ie. waiving cost for...