by Mark Holloway | June 4, 2012 | Adult Child Coverage, Dollar Limits, Health Reform
HHS recently issued a final regulation on student health care coverage offered by colleges and universities. The regulation defines “student health insurance coverage” as a type of individual health insurance coverage provided by an institution of higher...
by Mark Holloway | May 14, 2012 | Compliance Services, State and Local Issues
The City of San Francisco has fined a commercial janitorial services company more than $1.3 million for violations of the City’s Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO). The city ordered the company to pay 100% of its required payments to the health reimbursement...
by Mark Holloway | April 30, 2012 | Health Reform
Under the federal health reform law, insurers offering health coverage must meet minimum “medical loss ratios,” that is, they must spend a minimum percentage of premiums they collect in a given state, for a given year, on medical claims or quality improvements for...
by Mark Holloway | April 23, 2012 | Compliance Services, State and Local Issues
The California Department of Insurance (DOI) is backing a bill in the California State Senate which imposes new limits on certain stop-loss policies sold to small employers whose health plans are self-funded. Such policies guarantee that the small employers’...
by Mark Holloway | March 20, 2012 | Health Reform
In early February, the Obama administration announced a compromise on the requirement that non-grandfathered health insurance plans offered by religiously-affiliated employers offer free birth control to female participants. Insurance companies that underwrite the...
