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Printer-friendly versionLife Products Committee comments on the proposed Genetic Discrimination Model Act to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Life Committee as it considers the proposal. (July 13, 2002)
Defined Contribution Health Plan Work Group issue brief providing an overview of the defined contribution approach to health coverage. After a brief discussion of trends in health plan approaches and the factors contributing to the emergence of defined contribution health plans, the issue brief describes the characteristics and types of defined contribution health plans. (June 3, 2002)
Executive summary of the issue brief on understanding defined contribution health plans. (June 1, 2002)
Task Force on Genetic Testing Issues issue brief describing the nature of disability income and long-term care insurance and discussing, from the perspectives of both consumers and insurers, the implications of the newly emerging genetic technologies for these products. Strategies to effectively address this emerging dilemma of how best to respond to public concerns about the possible misuse of genetic information, while preserving the viability of the voluntary, individual disability income and long-term care insurance markets, are also explored. (April 30, 2002)
Executive summary of the issue brief on the use of genetic information in disability income and long-term care insurance. (April 25, 2002)
Retiree Health Work Group outline of six possible approaches that could be used as “safe harbor” methods for meeting nondiscrimination-testing requirements under EEOC guidelines for retiree health care plans. (April 11, 2002)
Health Plan Work Group comments on the association health plan (AHP) provisions in Title IV, Subtitle B of the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (H.R. 2563), which would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish a new “Part 8—Rules Governing Association Health Plans. (April 9, 2002)
High-Risk Pools Work Group testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on using health care tax credits to decrease the number of uninsured individuals. (February 13, 2002)
Health Practice Financial
Reporting Committee report to the NAIC on areas of appearance of inconsistencies among the various sources of accounting guidance and industry practice or variation by legal entity. (January 31, 2002)
Genetic Testing Issues Task Force issue brief seeking to help policymakers and the public better understand the risk classification process in the long-term care and individual disability income markets. (December 3, 2001)
Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter proposing several amendments to paragraphs within SSAP 54. (August 29, 2001)
Managed Care Reform Work Group issue brief assisting policymakers in understanding the scope of applicability of proposed pateient protection legislation and the ability of enrollees to file legal action against their health plan. (June 1, 2001)
Executive summary of the issue brief on the Effects of Proposed Patient Protection Legislation on Managed Care (June 1, 2001)
Academy comments on the proposal developed and approved on a preliminary basis by the NAIC’s Speed to Market Working Group that pertain to the definitions of “minimum experience and education requirements” for actuaries contained in the preface to the proposal. (March 29, 2001)
Task Force on HORBC comments that offer a counterproposal regarding the redesign of the Property & Equipment page. The counterproposal would achieve the objectives of attaining compliance with the new Health blank and reducing the amount of data collected, and it would leave the NAIC working group flexibility to make a change to the HCDA risk factor in 2001. (January 10, 2001)
Health Organization Risk Based Capital Task Force's March 2000 progress report to the NAIC on LTC model regulation. (August 14, 2000)
Task Force on Genetic Testing in Health Insurance monongraph on key concerns raised with respect to genetic testing, including access to health care, the cost of health care and health insurance, and the privacy of genetic information. (June 30, 2000)
Executive summary of the monograph on Genetic Information and Medical Expense Insurance.
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Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force letter request for NAIC assistance in narrowing the scope of the Academy's Health Insurance Rate Filing Task Force work on developing guidelines for filing health insurance rates with state regulatory agencies. (February 24, 2000)
Academy comments to HHS on the proposed federal regulations regarding the privacy of individually identifiable health information (IIHI). (February 17, 2000)
