Indigo Health Plan advertised a specific individual health insurance policy through a direct mail advertisement that provided detailed information about the product. In order to comply with the NAIC Model Rules Governing Advertisements of Accident and Sickness Insurance, Indigo must disclose whether the advertised policy contains any exceptions, reductions, or limitations. Thus, Indigo disclosed in the advertisement that one policy provision limits coverage for dental exams to $50 per exam and to one exam per calendar year. This information indicates that, with respect to the definitions in the NAIC Model Rules, Indigo's advertisement is an example of an
After conducting a business portfolio analysis, the Acorn Health Plan decided to pursue a harvest strategy with one of its strategic business units (SBUs)-Guest Behavioral Healthcare. By following a harvest strategy with Guest, Acorn most likely is seeking to
In developing its corporate strategies, the Haven Health Plan decided to implement a growth strategy that is focused on increasing the percentage of preventive health office visits from its current plan members. To accomplish this objective, Haven will send a direct mail kit to existing plan members to remind them of the variety of preventive health services that Haven currently offers, including physical exams, cholesterol tests, and mammograms. This information illustrates Haven's use of
In 1994, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revised their 1993 healthcare-specific antitrust guidelines to include analytical principles relating to multiprovider networks. Under the new guidelines, the regulatory agencies will use the rule of reason to analyze joint pricing activities by competitors in physician or multiprovider networks only if
The government uses various tools within the realm of two broad categories of public policy-allocative policies and regulatory policies. In the context of public policy, laws that fall into the category of allocative policy include