NU Online News Service, Jan. 7, 3:59 p.m. EST

The Department of Health and Human Services is being criticized for allegedly interfering with National Association of Insurance Commissioners' deliberations on health care issues in a comment letter sent by independent agents on the medical loss ratio issue.

In a letter sent to the HHS Thursday, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA) again repeated its request that agent commissions on health care insurance be deemed a "pass-through," and therefore exempted from the new medical loss ratio (MLR) formula.

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