10/7/11 - Health care reform requires certain health plans to cover federally-mandated essential health benefits. What benefits will be considered essential health benefits has not yet been clearly defined. HHS tasked the Institute of Medicine with recommending criteria and methods for determining and updating the essential health benefits that must be included in health plans beginning in 2014. The IOM released a report today outlining its findings.
Posted by BAS - 08 October, 2011