Insurers and consumer representatives are disagreeing about when the National Association of Insurance Commissioners should revise its suggested health plan provider network standards.
America's Health Insurance Plans wants the NAIC to put off work on the Managed Care Network Adequacy Model Act, to give insurers time to see how plans with small networks perform both on and off the new health insurance exchanges.
Moving too early could hurt insurers' efforts to create plans with efficient, high-quality networks, Colleen Gallaher, an AHIP state policy specialist, said in a comment letter.
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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.
