Joint MLR Workshop Held On Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

On November 16, 2011, the California Department of Insurance ("CDI") and the California Department of Managed Health Care ("DMHC") conducted a joint workshop to consider comments from interested persons regarding issues and concerns that should be considered when the agencies develop regulations to implement California SB 51, the California legislation intended to implement the annual and lifetime limits and medical loss ratio provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA").

The workshop was conducted in San Francisco and was scheduled to last approximately three hours. Although the hearing room was full of interested persons and there were several additional participants on the telephone, the moderators struggled to make the workshop last 30 minutes. The contact person at the CDI for further comments is Bruce Hinse, Staff Counsel III and the contact person at the DMHC is Elaine Paniewski, Staff Services Manger I.