In addition to the work that states are doing (or purposefully not doing) to implement State Health Insurance Exchanges for operation in 2014, states have also been given the task of choosing a benchmark plan for purposes of defining the essential health benefits (“EHB”), a minimum package of benefits that must be offered by all
Essential Health Benefits Package
CCIIO Issues Bulletin on Plans to Define the Essential Health Benefits Package: Providing States with a Significant Role While Still Leaving Room for Public Input
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Posted in Access to Health Care
by Lynn Shapiro Snyder and Lesley R. Yeung
On December 16, 2011, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight ("CCIIO") within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") released a "bulletin" to provide information and solicit comments on the regulatory approach that the Department of Health and Human Services plans to propose to…
Meeting the Requirements for Defining the “Essential Health Benefits Package”: DOL Publishes Survey of Employer-Sponsored Coverage
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Posted in Cost of Health Care
by Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Clayton J. Nix, and Lesley R. Yeung
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a survey report on April 15, 2011, that is being used to satisfy a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) that the Secretary of Labor “conduct a survey of employer-sponsored coverage&rdquo…