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How the Federal Healthcare Reform Law Will Affect Healthcare Premiums, Healthcare Benefits and Price Regulation

August 2011
By: Hilary Rowen

Sedgwick partner Hilary Rowen offered a webinar hosted by the Corporate Research Group for Healthcare consulting & publishing.
 
This webinar covered the following:
  • The ban on pre-existing condition exclusions and the end of medical underwriting.
  • Limitations on permissible rating factors and rate differentials.
  • Minimum coverage requirements.
  • Cross-subsidies among insurers in the non-governmental market.
  • The medical loss ratios and retroactive premium refunds.
  • Prospective regulation of “unreasonable” rate increases.
  • The potential consequences of a successful constitutional challenge to the individual coverage mandate.

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