Groups that represent benefits advisors want insurance department chiefs to get more involved with National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) efforts to implement the new federal health system change laws.
The groups — the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, Washington; the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, Alexandria, Va.; the National Association of Health Underwriters, Arlington, Va.; and the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Falls Church, Va. – have joined to send a call for commissioner involvement to Jane Cline, the president of the NAIC, Kansas City, Mo.
When Congress drafted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the legislative package that includes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act – it required the NAIC to help with a number of ACA implementation tasks, such as determining how to go about enforcing new minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
