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Antitrust Waivers for
Physicians
Information about pending
federal and state legislation that would exempt doctors from current antitrust
laws, allowing them to collectively bargain with health benefit
plans.
Genetic
Discrimination
Details about state and federal-level
initiatives to prohibit insurance companies from discriminating against
consumers based on their genetic information. Also, reasons why the way "genetic
information" is defined in legislation should be of interest to health insurance
consumers.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA)
Resources concerning the federal Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, including information about the
execution of this legislation at both the state and federal levels of
government.
Long-Term Care
Insurance
Information addressing the current long-term care
financing crisis and data on how encouraging the purchase of private long-term
care insurance could help.
Managed Care
Specifics on
managed care reform legislation being considered at both the state and federal
levels of government.
Mandated Health Insurance
Benefits
Facts about federal and state-level mandates on the
content of health benefit policies and how such mandated benefit laws impact the
cost of health insurance.
Medicare Issues
Facts on the
federal Medicare program and resource materials on the various Medicare reform
proposals being considered. Also details about the Medicare+Choice program, and
information on how it can be improved and preserved as a health insurance option
for our nation's senior population.
NAIC Single Producer Model Licensing
Act
Information about state-based regulation of the business
of insurance, facts about how the passage of the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley act
could change state-level regulation of the insurance producer licensure process
and information about the importance of the passage of the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners' Model Producer Licensing Act in all 50
states.
Privacy
Initiatives
Information about recent federal and state-level
initiatives designed to protect the confidentiality of insurance consumers'
personally identifiable medical and financial information.
Regulatory Advisories
The
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has issued several important
bulletins related to HIPAA implementation that have been promulgated through the
regulatory process. These regulations and bulletin clarifications affect our
members' daily business. The issues addressed range from establishing group size
to agent commissions.
Single-Payer Health
Plans
Facts about single-payer health plans detailing why they
are not the best solution to the problem of the uninsured.
Tax Credits for the
Uninsured
Comprehensive source of information on how NAHU's
health tax credit proposal will help to dramatically reduce the number of
uninsured Americans.
HIFA Waiver Programs for Expanding Private
Sector Coverage
A new program designed to promote states'
flexibility in Medicaid and children's health programs with the objective of
increasing private sector coverage options.
State Childrens' Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP)
Resource materials on the State Children's Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) and suggestions as to how the program can be improved
so that it can cover even more of our nation's uninsured
children.
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