[Official Guidance]

12/30/2004: Text of Agencies' Request for Comments on Effect of Benefit-Specific Waiting Period (PDF) (Internal Revenue Service, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

3 pages. Excerpt: The Departments invite comments about benefit-specific waiting periods. This solicitation is to ensure that the public can provide input into any criteria used to determine whether a benefit-specific waiting period utilized by a group health plan or issuer is a preexisting condition exclusion under HIPAA. The Departments are requesting this information to help decide whether to issue any guidance on this question, and the content of any such guidance.