AHIP, BCBSA Ask NGA To Label Insurers As Essential

The major health care insurance lobbies ask the National Governors Association to designate health insurance providers, including the workers and vendors that manage health plans, as “essential infrastructure” and “essential business” in all 50 states throughout the crisis. “Doctors and hospitals are under enormous financial stress right now and depend on our ability to maintain the flow of timely payments,” America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) wrote in a March 21 letter to...