NH Rev Stat § 420-K:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXVII - Insurance|Title 420-K - Small Employer Health Reinsurance Pool|Section 420-K:4 - Standard Health Benefit Plan.

[RSA 420-K:4 effective until 60 days after certification by the insurance commissioner that 29 C.F.R. section 2510.3-5(b) is valid and that issues raised in State of New York v. United States Department of Labor have been resolved, but not later than December 1, 2021; see also RSA 420-K:4 set out below.] |    420-K:4 Standard Health Benefit Plan. –||I. The board shall:||(a) Develop a standard health benefit plan which shall contain benefit and cost sharing levels that reflect the health coverages most commonly sold by small employer carriers in the state.||(b) Develop base reinsurance premium rates for the standard health benefit plan. The base reinsurance premium rates shall be set at levels which reasonably approximate gross premiums charged to small employers by small employer carriers for health benefit plans with benefits similar to the standard health benefit plan. The base premium rates shall be subject to approval of the commissioner.||(c) Establish a methodology for determining premium rates to be charged by the pool to reinsure small employer groups and individuals. The methodology shall include a system for classification of small employers that reflects the types of case characteristics commonly used by small employer carriers in establishing premium rates.||II. The standard health benefit plan, base reinsurance premium rates, and the rating methodology shall be submitted to the commissioner for approval within 45 days after the appointment of the board and shall subsequently be revised as necessary and appropriate.|||[RSA 420-K:4 effective 60 days after certification by the insurance commissioner that 29 C.F.R. section 2510.3-5(b) is valid and that issues raised in State of New York v. United States Department of Labor have been resolved, but not later than December 1, 2021; see also RSA 420-K:4 above.] ||||420-K:4 Risk Adjustment Program. –||I. The board shall:||(a) Develop and monitor a measure of risk to be used in comparing populations covered by small employer health insurance coverage and bona fide pathway II association coverage. The population covered by qualified association trust coverage or by bona fide pathway I association coverage, whether self-funded or fully insured, shall not be a part of the risk adjustment program and, for the purposes of this chapter, shall not be considered to be small group coverage.||(b) Access from the New Hampshire comprehensive health care information system (CHIS), as described under RSA 420-G:11-a, member level information, including length of coverage, gender, age, and diagnosis, sufficient to measure and monitor risk for carriers issuing or administering small employer health insurance.||(c) Perform risk adjustment analysis which may include the use of data from the CHIS, including calculating New Hampshire specific relative weights as necessary, to analyze the difference in the medical care resources expected to be necessary to treat the 2 different populations, one covered in the small group insurance risk pool and the other covered by bona fide pathway II association coverage.||(d) Subject to the limitation in paragraph II, establish risk adjustment payments between carriers that are triggered whenever the average risk over any calendar year between bona fide pathway II association coverage and all other small group coverage differs by more than the maximum allowed amount, and that serve to create a net effect of reducing future expected risk score differences after payments to approximately the target amount. The commissioner shall establish the maximum allowed amount and the target amount by retaining actuarial experts. The standard that the actuarial experts shall use in recommending values for the maximum allowed amount and the target amount is that such amounts should be so determined as to prevent the pathway II association market from having an adverse impact on the availability and choice of coverage in the small group market and to prevent adverse selection against the small group market that is sufficient to cause the average premiums for small groups to increase at a rate that is significantly higher than the trend in claims costs.||(e) Provide a report to the insurance commissioner in a form and format acceptable to the commissioner.||II. The board shall not implement any adjustments until the number of lives covered by bona fide pathway II association coverage exceeds 2,000 member months for 3 consecutive months.||||Source. 2005, 225:12, eff. July 1, 2005. 2019, 346:417.|