Modern Healthcare April 10, 2018
The CMS issued a 523-page final rule late Monday that agency officials said is meant to give states more power to regulate their individual and small-group health insurance markets. The rule also furthers the Trump administration’s agenda of chipping away at Affordable Care Act rules in lieu of a full repeal, which congressional Republicans haven’t been able to pull off.
Here are five highlights:
States’ choose-your-own-benefits adventure
The CMS handed states the reins to determine which essential health benefits individual and small-group plans must offer, starting in 2020. States will be able to either adopt another state’s 2017 benchmark plan; replace one or more of its benefit categories with that of another state’s; or completely build a new essential benefits...
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