Health Care & Hospital Law
Jan. 29, 2015
Emergency regulation may change narrow networks
While lawyers who represent consumers and medical providers agree that the narrow network model is in need of an overhaul, others in the insurance field find nothing wrong with the old concept.
The flood of newly insured individuals spawned by the Affordable Care Act has brought to light an old health insurance practice: narrow networks, a concept popularized in the 1990s in which consumers paid less for their health plans but had fewer choices in providers.
Fast forward 20 years - amid tumultuous reform efforts - and experts are butting heads over how to best regulate the practice. While lawyers who r...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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