Last week the state of Washington finalized rules banning insurers from imposing benefit-specific waiting periods on policyholders. Sandy Ahn, a new Research Fellow at CHIR, reviews the rule and how it’s likely to affect consumers.
In response to actions by some health plans to impose benefit-specific waiting periods for coverage of serious health conditions, such as organ transplants, the Obama Administration recently issued guidance to prohibit the practice and protect consumers from discriminatory benefit design. Georgetown Law Center’s Sandy Ahn reviews the new guidance and the impact for consumers in this guest post.
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