Topic: Healthcare

Late last month, the NAIC Improper Marketing of Health Insurance (D) Working Group met in ‎a public session to discuss revisions to the Unfair Trade Practices Act (Model# 880) to include ‎health insurance lead generators. The main thrust of the proposed revisions is to extend the ‎prohibited practices of Section 4 of the Unfair Trade Practices Act to health insurance lead ‎generators and to impose upon lead generators record keeping requirements subject to ‎examination by state insurance regulators. The health insurance industry, as represented by ‎AHIP, publicly supports the proposed revisions to the Unfair Trade Practices Act as do multiple ‎consumer representatives.‎

The health workstream of the NAIC’s Special (EX) Committee on Race & Insurance, co-‎chaired by Maryland and Minnesota, met yesterday. The overarching theme of the meeting was ‎access to preventive services, particularly as it pertains to chronic diseases, emphasizing ‎underserved populations, especially people of color. The regulators heard presentations from ‎three academic and community advocacy experts‎.