New Hampshire Receives Health Care Reform Waiver

May 16, 2011

One of two more states approved

New Hampshire and Nevada were just granted waivers for the individual policy medical loss ratio requirement requiring insurers to spend eighty percent of their premium revenues on medical costs under healthcare reform. While New Hampshire did not get the entire exemption of seventy percent requested, insurers will have to spend seventy-two percent of premiums on care in 2011, seventy-five percent in 2012, and eighty percent in 2013 and beyond.

Massachusetts' first hearing aimed at lowering healthcare costs is today. The hearing is to take testimony that looks at alternative methods instead of the fee for service currently in place and replace it with systems that reduce costs and increases cooperation between providers.

Florida wants to be the first state to charge most Medicaid recipients a monthly premium and a $100 copay for using the ER for routine medical care. Also reported in the May 16, 2011 NAHU Newswire is a story claiming the slow economic recovery may be harming Medicare and Social Security.

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