Health Policy: Latest News- IOM Issues Recommendations on Essential Health Benefits

On October 6, the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) issued its 297-page report providing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with a set of criteria and approaches for developing a package of “essential health benefits,” as applicable to individual and small group coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). HHS is expected to issue the final standard by mid- 2012. Read more...

To link to the IOM report, please go to: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Essential-Health-Benefits-Balancing-Coverage-and-Cost.aspx