Law360 quoted Manatt’s Michael Kolber, a partner with Manatt Health, in an article about the key takeaways for attorneys from the AHCA’s passage.
Kolber said that with key factors like the essential health benefits requirements for individual and small-group plans up for grabs across the country, stakeholders throughout the healthcare sector have to prepare to expend a lot of energy fighting for their preferences.
“If states really do take up this mantle of changing the [essential health benefits package], then you’re going to have fights in 50 states plus D.C. about what the benefit package should be,” he said.