The Center on Health Insurance Reforms recently drew attention to health care sharing ministries' by publishing a commentary on possible concerns about the ministry programs.
Sabrina Corlette reports in the commentary that she has heard of some health care providers running into patients in the ministry programs.
She notes that the programs are exempt from many of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requirements that normally apply to new individual and small-group major medical coverage, such as the requirement that policies cover childhood immunizations and other preventive services, or even a requirement that the programs submit to any kind of solvency oversight.
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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.
