Minimum Medical Loss Ratios: How Health Plans Should Prepare for the January Compliance Requirements

Summary: What constitutes healthcare quality improvement? CMS's definition of medical costs will likely coalesce around five key areas of quality improvement, say John Steele and Steve Young, managing directors for HealthScape Advisors. These CMS guidelines will impact health plans in January, when new medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations take effect. In this podcast, the advisors also describe the risk that insurers could incur on the rebate side if they don't adequately prepare for the January changes and the impact the regulations could have on consumers' medical care and choices. Steele and Young will provide an in-depth analysis of what health plans must do now to comply with the January deadline for MLRs and how this might impact health plans operationally and financially during "Minimum Medical Loss Ratios: How Health Plans Should Prepare for the January Compliance Requirements," a 60-minute webinar on July 21, 2010.