Health Insurance Answer Book, Tenth Edition

From designing a cost-effective new health care plan…to administering an existing plan…to complying with the many state and federal rules that govern health benefit plans - you know how difficult it is to manage your company's group health insurance.

With Aspen Publishers' Health Insurance Answer Book, you get expert guidance and practice-based answers to all types of questions about today's health insurance marketplace, including:

• Are there any guidelines on medical tourism?
• What are the issues related to implementation of a "full flex" plan?
• What is the role of an intermediary?
• Can onsite health clinics save money?
• Are there any new developments regarding the use of captives for retiree health insurance?
• What is electronic prescribing?
• What is comparative effectiveness research?

The Tenth Edition brings you up to date on legislative and regulatory developments and on industry changes in this area. It includes:

• A new chapter on health care reform
• Modifications to all chapters affected by health care reform
• A new chapter on claim administration
• Information on a flurry of new regulations affecting employee benefit plans
• Updated guidance on the impact of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) on personal health assessments, also known as health risk assessments
• Results from the 2010 United Benefit Advisors (UBA) survey of plan design and plan costs, which include responses from small and midsized employers, who sponsor most of the health plans in the United States