Health insurers have had trouble with getting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help them prepare to participate in the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) risk-management programs.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has included a glimpse of insurers' concerns about "three R's" program implementation in a summary of results of interviews with representatives from 12 insurers.

The GAO conducted the investigation at the request of Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

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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.