To effectively implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), federal agencies are drafting rules which will define the meaning, scope, and operation of the new systems and programs found in the health reform law. The Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCIIO) has released a number of proposed rules that relate to a variety of health system issues, such as coverage for preventive care services and the Patient’s Bill of Rights.
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August 11, 2010 Wednesday 10:56 AM EST
HHS’s Final Rule on Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Program Sent to House
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 — The House Energy and Commerce Committee has received an executive branch communication from Department of Health and Human Services.
The program manager at the HHS has transmitted, pursuant to law, [5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A)], the Department’s ”Major” final rule – Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Program.
Posted: August 5, 2010
As the states begin to focus in earnest on the details of the reform law’s new insurance exchanges, they’re facing pressure from consumer advocates and health care economists to structure the marketplaces as relatively aggressive negotiators that impose consumer protections beyond the federal law’s minimum requirements. State lawmakers and regulators will soon need to begin tackling a raft of programmatic and logistical questions about the exchanges, and many of their answers will depend on more fundamental decisions about the role each state wants its exchange to play.