Excerpt: The new regulations, which essentially are similar to those issued in 1997, require group health plans and their insurers to set limits on the pre-existing condition exclusions that can be imposed on workers who lose their jobs or change jobs. The final rules require an 'educational statement' about a beneficiaries' HIPAA rights to be included in the certificate of creditable coverage, require written procedures for obtaining a cerficiate of creditable coverage, and[.]