CAHI has several membership categories designed to encourage interaction and cooperation between professionals in all areas of health care and health care delivery.

Full Membership is exclusively for risk-bearing companies, such as individual and small group health insurers and specialty carriers (HSAs, defined contributions, long-term care, supplemental coverage). These members receive the most comprehensive range of benefits and services and play an active role in determining CAHI policy through election to the Board of Directors. Dues for Full Members are based on health insurance premiums reported for the preceding year.

Affiliate Members are non-risk bearing companies, non-profit organizations and individuals such as agents, actuaries, physicians and benefit consultants. These members play a major role in helping to define policy objectives and association goals by lending their expertise on various issues.

The CAHI Action Team is a new grassroots initiative developed to provide timely, pertinent information to insurance professionals and others who want to be prepared not only to refute the calls for socialized medicine, but to educate elected officials, the media and the public on how to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance. Action Team members are brokers, agents, benefits professionals, financial planners, physicians and health care consumers.

For more information on the benefits of CAHI membership, or to obtain a membership application packet, please contact Kelly O'Donnell Cates, Director of Operations, at kelly@cahi.org or (703) 836-6200, x385.