Commonwealth Fund webinar on Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans focuses on Wisconsin and New Mexico
The Commonwealth Fund hosted a webinar on the Affordable Care Act provision on establishing temporary high-risk pools, also called Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIPs). PCIPs are designed to quickly make health insurance available to uninsured individuals with pre-existing conditions, many of whom previously had been denied coverage. PCIPs are a temporary measure until 2014 when the health […]
New York Governor David Paterson signs S. 5000-B into Law
S. 5000-B gives the New York State Insurance Department the authority to deny requests from insurance companies to create specialty drug pricing tiers, also known as Tier IV drug pricing. Â These types of tiers have been used by insurance companies in other states to require patients to pay higher co-payments and co-insurance based on the […]