Regulators are polishing an addition to the standards state examiners use to verify insurer compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other laws.

Examiners will use the new section to see if insurers are giving plan enrollees the required level of access to health care providers.

Members of the Market Conduct Examination Standards Working Group at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have posted a draft of the section. Comments on the section are due Dec. 31.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.