Beginning February 16, 2013, the federally-run Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is suspending acceptance of new enrollment applications until further notice. State-based PCIPs may continue accepting enrollment applications through March 2, and will then suspend acceptance of new enrollment applications until further notice. PCIP will continue providing coverage to more than 100,000 people currently enrolled nationwide.
This suspension will help ensure that funds are available through 2013 to continuously cover people currently enrolled in PCIP.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
HHS Releases Final Regulations on Essential Health Benefits Standards
On February 20, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule that helps consumers shop for and compare health insurance options in the individual and small group markets by promoting consistency across plans, protecting consumers by ensuring that plans cover a core package of items that are equal in scope to benefits offered by a typical employer plan, and limiting their out of pocket expenses.
The Final Rules include details on:
- Essential Health Benefits (EHB) benchmark and default plans
- Determining Actuarial Value (AV) and Employer Mandate Minimum Value (MV)
- Preventive care
- Cost sharing requirements
Friday, February 1, 2013
Proposed Rule Eases Contraceptive Mandate for Non-Profit Religious Organizations
On February 1, 2013, the Departments of Health and Human Services announced a proposed rule that, according to an agency press release, lays out "how nonprofit religious organizations, such as nonprofit religious hospitals or institutions of higher education, that object to contraception on religious grounds can receive an accommodation that provides their enrollees separate contraceptive coverage, and with no co-pays, but at no cost to the religious organization."
Here's the HHS fact sheet and proposed rule.
Here's the HHS fact sheet and proposed rule.
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