AHIP Statement on Essential Health Benefits
For Immediate Release
December 16, 2011
Contact:
Robert Zirkelbach
202-778-8493
Washington, DC – America’s
Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) President and CEO Karen Ignagni released the
following statement on new guidance from the Department of Health and Human
Services on essential health benefits:
"We
are carefully reviewing this guidance and agree that it is vital that the final
essential health benefits requirement ‘balance
comprehensiveness, affordability, and State flexibility.’ As the Institute
of Medicine (IOM) made clear in its recent report, ‘state
mandates are not typically subjected to a rigorous evidence-based review or
cost analysis,’ an issue that should be addressed to ensure affordability
for individuals, working families and small employers.”
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