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May 7, 2012

Recent Stories of Interest

From AIS's Health Reform Week - A new battleground may be starting to take form between insurers and regulators, and it involves the complex world of risk-based capital (RBC), a controversial measure related to carrier solvency. The insurers’ concern is that the major reforms beginning in 2014 will make health insurance much more risky, and that RBC levels therefore will need to be higher. Read more

The medical loss ratio (MLR)-related rebates that health insurers will owe for… Read more

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order April 15… Read more

If you are the CEO of a health plan that is trying… Read more

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May 16, 2012
E-News Alert for May 16, 2012

This week's headlines

  • Breaking News: HHS Issues Guidance on Exchange Application Process and Federally Run Exchanges
  • Health Insurers to Reap $1 Trillion Revenue Bonanza if Reform Law Survives Supremes
  • HHS Rule Tells Health Insurers to Credit Reform Law in MLR Rebate Check Notices
  • Illinois Governor Weighs Issuing Executive Order to Create State Insurance Exchange
  • HHS Issues Rules to Cut Red Tape, Says Savings to Hospitals and Providers Amount to $1.1 Billion per Year

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May 9, 2012
E-News Alert for May 9, 2012

This week's headlines

  • HHS Seeks to Boost Medicaid Payments to Primary Care Physicians
  • Report Says U.S. Adults Are Losing Access to Basic Health Care Services in Most States
  • Sebelius Offers ACA Money for Building or Fixing School-Based Health Centers
  • Fidelity Says Seniors May Face More Costly Medical Care if Supreme Court Tosses Reform Law
  • States Are Said to Have Chance to Streamline Number of Plans in Insurance Exchanges

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May 4, 2012
Table: Estimated Medical Loss Ratio Rebates in the Individual Market in 2012
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