Health Affairs April 20, 2018
Katie Keith

In addition to finalizing the 2019 payment rule in early April, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a number of additional guidance documents. One of these guidance documents outlines new exemptions from the individual mandate; others were discussed in previous posts on the payment rule, where relevant.

This post discusses remaining guidance documents, including the final 2019 letter to issuers in the federally facilitated exchanges and new application materials for qualified health plans. The post then discusses a number of new proposed information collection requests related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that finds that CMS needs to improve its data on terminating marketplace coverage.

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, GAO, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Public Exchange
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