What this service is:

Bloomberg BNA's Health Insurance Report helps you to keep on top of legal, legislative, and regulatory developments affecting the health insurance industry throughout implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.

What it helps you do:

• Track every stage of health care reform implementation with HealthDocs™: a searchable, full-text collection of key documents related to the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 on the availability and regulation of health insurance.
• Use a comprehensive implementation timeline to chart the various deadlines for reforms to insurance coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, the health care delivery system, provider and plan payments, financing, and compliance and transparency requirements from 2010 through 2020.
• Find articles written by leading insurance experts and health care attorneys on hot topics, developing trends, and other important issues in health insurance benefits and regulation.
• Understand the implications of federal and state court decisions regarding insurance coverage, ERISA litigation, HIPAA implementation, state regulations, and fraud and abuse.
• Keep on top of new federal regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
• Read expert reports on the establishment of state health insurance exchanges, legislation, and regulations that affect health insurance companies, and actions taken by state insurance departments and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to regulate insurance coverage and delivery.
• Learn about insurance industry developments, trends, mergers and acquisitions, studies on health care and insurance costs, new benefit plan designs, HMOs, pharmacy benefits, health care technology costs and innovations, and other private sector developments.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Web notification, including a PDF and e-mail summary, is available weekly. In addition, e-mail alerts are sent to subscribers as often as needed and whenever significant new documents are issued. Archive (Health Plan & Provider Report back issues) dates to January 7, 1998.

• Access
• Accreditation
• Advertising and marketing
• Antitrust
• Class action litigation
• Consumer satisfaction
• Costs
• Coverage
• Employee benefits
• Financing
• Fraud and abuse
• HMOs
• Information technology
• Insurance industry trends
• Insurance regulation
• Market trends
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Medical records
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Pharmacy benefits
• Physician practice management
• Plan administration
• Plan liability
• Plan regulation
• PPOs
• Provider contracting
• Provider reimbursement
• Quality of care
• State regulations
• Utilization review

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA)
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

• New Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight in the Health & Human Services Department
• HHS Office of Inspector General
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)