Health Insurance Issuers Implementing Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

"This final rule with comment period revises the regulations implementing medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements for health insurance issuers under the Public Health Service Act in order to address the treatment of 'mini-med' and expatriate policies under these regulations for years after 2011; modify the way the regulations treat ICD-10 conversion costs; change the rules on deducting community benefit expenditures; and revise the rules governing the distribution of rebates by issuers in group markets." -76 Fed. Reg. 76,574

Regulation Documents

Date Type Document ID Download Comment Deadline
05/16/2012 Final rule. HHS_FRDOC_0001-0452 PDF|Text
05/16/2012 Interim final rule; correcting amendment. HHS_FRDOC_0001-0451 PDF|Text
12/07/2011 Final rule with comment period. CMS-2011-0179-0001 PDF|Text January 6, 2012 - 5:00pm
12/30/2010 Correction of interim final rule with request for comments. HHS-OS-2011-0003-0001 PDF|Text
12/01/2010 Regulatory impact analysis, technical appendix. HHS-OS-2010-0026-0001RIA PDF
12/01/2010 Interim final rule with request for comments. HHS-OS-2010-0026-0001 PDF|Text January 31, 2011 - 11:59pm ALG Comment on Regulation HHS-OS-2010-0026-0001
04/14/2010 Request for information. HHS-OS-2010-0001-0398 PDF|Text May 14, 2010 - 11:59pm