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Health Insurance Exchanges, Part II: Essential Health Benefits
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
This webinar was brought to you by the Healthcare Reform Educational Task Force (a joint endeavor of the Healthcare Liability and Litigation; Hospitals and Health Systems; In-House Counsel; Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review; Payors, Plans, and Managed Care; Physician Organizations; Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment; and Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Groups); and the Health Information and Technology and Payors, Plans, and Managed Care Practice Groups.
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This webinar addressed the following topics:
- Background information on state-based exchanges, statutory requirements for essential health benefits (EHB), and current landscape of state-mandated benefits;
- Key considerations in essential health benefits—balancing cost and budgetary concerns with need for adequate, quality health insurance coverage;
- The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on EHB—findings, framework, and recommendations (target package to typical small employer market plan, informed by research);
- Stakeholder concerns and IOM guidance for insurers (e.g., ten essential categories); and
- The expected next steps.
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Joel Ario
Former Director Office of Health Insurance Exchanges Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Washington, DC
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Julie Barnes
Director of Health Policy Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC
- Mary Elizabeth Senkewicz
Deputy Commissioner, Life & Health
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Tallahassee, FL
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