States may take at least three different approaches to splitting oversight work between health insurance exchanges and state insurance regulators, according to Lee Goldberg.
Goldberg, director of health policy at the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), Washington, describes those approaches in written testimony he has submitted to the Exchanges Subgroup at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Kansas City, Mo.
Goldberg may testify this week at a hearing the subgroup intends to hold at the NAIC’s spring meeting in Austin, Texas.
The health insurance exchanges provisions in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) encourages states to create new entities that will help individuals, families and small groups use new federal income tax subsidies to shop for health coverage.