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The Congressional Budget Office said in a report that a Congressional fix to exclude broker commissions from medical loss ratio calculations will increase deficits by $531 million over the 2013-2017 period.
The deficit would further increase to about $1.1 billion over the 2013-2022 period, including a $127 million decline in off-budget Social Security revenues, according to the report, released Wednesday.
Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.
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