08/30/2019

NPF encourages efforts to extend prior authorization standards in trade practices for all health plans regulated through the department. With recent federal rules that expand association health plans (AHP) and short-term, limited-duration (STLD) health plans to the market, these plans do not have to adhere to the regular market standards including patient protections under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We applaud the department for wanting to place a standard across all state-regulated healthcare plans to ensure better access to care for patients.