National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) officers are asking federal agencies to continue to use an NAIC subgroup to help develop, maintain and extend new benefits and coverage summary standards.
The officers talk about a continuing role for the NAIC's Consumer Information Subgroup in a cover letter submitting the NAIC's proposal for standard health coverage definitions and standards for benefits and coverage summaries to the secretaries of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Labor.
The NAIC developed one set of benefits and coverage summary instructions for individually purchased policies and another for group products.
"There may be additional changes required to the forms and instructions for large self-funded employer plans and for [health maintenance organizations]," the NAIC officials say in their cover letter.