The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has created a more active regulatory environment and increased audit activity among payers. Freeborn's Deborah Dorman-Rodriguez, Leader of the firm's Healthcare Practice Group, and David M. Kaufman, a Partner in the group, discussed this new regulatory environment and the effects it has had on insurance companies in a recent article published by American Lawyer Media's LifeHealthPro.com. LifeHealthPro.com provides industry news and best practices to life and health insurance advisors as well as insurance wholesalers. According to the attorneys, much of the audit activity has been around the PPACA's medical loss ratio reporting program and compliance with the Act's benefits mandate.
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