Blue Cross plans push HHS to release regs by early 2012

Kaiser Health News staff writer Marilyn Werber Serafini, working in collaboration with the National Journal, writes: "Health plans don't have the information they need to carry out some important health reform changes – and they don't have enough time to get the work done either, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association says. The problem, according to the BCBSA, has to do with regulations that the Obama administration has been churning out detailing the specifics of the 2010 health care law. The Association, which includes 39 companies that cover 98 million Americans, says its members need answers soon; they want all regulations released by the beginning of 2012" (Werber Serafini, 9/16). Read the story.