National Association of Health Underwriters

• Senate Introduces MLR Bill Excluding Agent Compensation from Formula

  By Elizabeth Festa, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 22, 2013

  The Medical Loss Ratio bill is back in the Senate after a long hiatus, or death, as some might say, in committee last year.

• House May Revive MLR Bill, Rep. Blackburn Says

  By Elizabeth Festa, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 28, 2013

  Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., vice chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today told the National Association of Health Underwriters to keep its eye on her committee and the Ways and Means Committee for action this year on health-reform policy-change initiatives, including a revival of the medical-loss ratio bill....

• Bill Exempting Agent Commissions from MLR Passes Committee, but Faces Hurdles

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com, Elizabeth Festa, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 20, 2012

  Legislation that would exempt agent commissions from the medical loss ratio calculation mandated under the healthcare-reform law passed a House committee today.

• New HHS Rules Define Producer Role in Health Exchange

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  March 15, 2012

  Health-exchange regulations finalized by the Obama administration March 12 envision allowing agents, brokers and private companies to sell coverage on the exchange to individuals and employers through privately run Web sites.

• New HHS Rules Define Producer Role in Health Exchange

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  March 13, 2012

  Health exchange regulations finalized by the Obama administration envision allowing agents, brokers and private companies, to sell coverage on the exchange to individuals and employers through privately-run websites

• Senate Legislation Would Offer Limited MLR Exemption for Agent Commissions

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 27, 2012

  Revised legislation narrowing the proposed exemption of agent commissions from the healthcare reform law’s Medical Loss Ratio is being introduced in the Senate.

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  Agents Push Back on MLR After HHS Setback

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 5, 2011

  Independent insurance agents and healthcare agents say they will continue to pursue their goal of a medical loss ratio exemption despite a recent rejection of their request by the Department of Health and Human Services

• House Passes NFIP Bill With Potentially Historic Shift Toward Privatization

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 14, 2011

  Whether the insurance industry will have certainty about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is now in the hands of the U.S. Senate.

• NAIC Working With HHS on Alternatives to MLR Change

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 13, 2011

  The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has decided an indirect, behind-the-scenes approach to reducing the strain on health insurance agents through the medical loss ratio provision will be most effective

• NAIC Task Force Supports Removal of Agent Commissions from MLRs

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 1, 2011

  A National Association of Insurance Commissioners task force said it will support House legislation that would remove agent commissions from the medical loss ratio.

• Rockefeller Objects To MLR Agent Exemption; NAIC To Hold Hearing

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 16, 2011

  Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Va., called out the National Association of Health Underwriters and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, saying their lobbying for agent exemptions from the medical loss ratio “will cost American consumers $1 billion in benefits.”

• House Republicans Look To Kill Funding For Health Care MLR Provision

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 23, 2011

  Funding for implementing the medical loss ratio provision of the health care reform law would be eliminated for the remainder of this fiscal year under the budget passed by the House last Saturday.

• Ario Seeks To Reassure Agents On Health Care Role Beyond 2014

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 21, 2011

  The role that insurance agents play in the health marketplace in 2014 and beyond will likely be left up to the states, said Joel Ario, head of the insurance exchange bureau of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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  Ario Seeks To Reassure Agents On Health Care Role Beyond 2014

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 16, 2011

  The role that insurance agents play in the health marketplace in 2014 and beyond will likely be left up to the states, said Joel Ario, head of the insurance exchange bureau of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

• Industry Reacts To SOTU Comments On Med Mal Reform, Regulation

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 27, 2011

  Insurance industry trade groups had generally positive reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union address, but most are waiting to see what actions follow.

• Republicans Plan To Keep HC Issue in Public Eye

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 24, 2011

  The House vote to repeal the health care reform law enacted in April was mostly “symbolic,” but it sets the stage for continuing efforts by Republicans to keep the health care reform debate before the public eye.