New Regulations and Guidance on 10 Topics

May 23, 2011

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City legal representatives attended the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Legal Department Cooperative Health Care Reform Roundtable with regulators in Washington, D.C. recently. The regulators updated the group on upcoming regulations, stating that new regulations and guidance will be issued on 10 topics between now and the end of the year. The topics include transparency, exchanges, risk adjustment, essential health benefits, insurance reforms, rate review, Medical Loss Ratio, appeals, standard coverage summaries, and quality reporting. It is anticipated that some of the regulations will be burdensome and at least one regulation will be more than 1,000 pages.

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KC Health Care Reform

New Regulations and Guidance on 10 Topics

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