In developing its corporate strategies, the Haven Health Plan decided to implement a growth strategy that is focused on increasing the percentage of preventive health office visits from its current plan members. To accomplish this objective, Haven will send a direct mail kit to existing plan members to remind them of the variety of preventive health services that Haven currently offers, including physical exams, cholesterol tests, and mammograms. This information illustrates Haven's use of
Health plans are allowed to appeal rules or regulations that affect them. Generally, the grounds for such appeals are limited either to procedural grounds or jurisdictional grounds. The Kabyle Health Plan appealed the following new regulations:
Appeal 1 - Kabyle objected to this regulation on the ground that this regulation is inconsistent with the law.
Appeal 2 - Kabyle objected to this regulation because it believed that the subject matter was outside the realm of issues that are legal for inclusion in the regulatory agency's regulations.
Appeal 3 - Kabyle objected to the process by which this regulation was adopted.
Of these appeals, the ones that Kabyle appealed on jurisdictional grounds were
The Hanford Health Plan has delegated the credentialing of its providers to the Sienna Group, a credential verification organization (CVO). If the contract between Hanford and Sienna complies with all of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) guidelines for delegation of credentialing, then this contract
The Wentworth Corporation uses a self-funded plan to provide its employees with healthcare benefits. One consequence of Wentworth's approach to providing healthcare benefits is that self-funding
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted the Health Maintenance Organization Model Act (HMO Model Act) to regulate the development and operations of HMOs. One true statement regarding the HMO Model Act is that the act
