Monday 24 September 2012

Health insurers begin to provide user-friendly plan guides

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday began requiring health insurers to provide user-friendly guides to patients that explain their benefits, aiming to make buying insurance nearly as easy as scanning packages of food for nutrition facts. Under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, employers and insurers must provide a summary of benefits and coverage in a clearly worded, standardized format that allows the private insurance market's 163 million beneficiaries to make side-by-side comparisons of plan offerings. ... via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News Read More Here..

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