Industry Proposes Privacy Alternative
Friday, July 21st, 2000 Risk ManagementInsurance company and agent trade associations have proposed tightly drafted health information privacy language to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The language represents an alternative to the broad language proposed by the NAIC‘s Privacy Working Group in early June. According to Rey Becker, vice president for property/casualty with the Alliance of American Insurers, "The NAIC has proposed a model insurance regulation to implement the financial privacy provisions of the new federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley [GLB] Act. For a variety of reasons, many members of the Privacy Working Group feel that this model needs to address health information, even though GLB never mentions health information." "The Alliance has genuine concerns about whether most state insurance departments have any authority to promulgate health information privacy regulations, in the absence of specific state statutory authority,"
