Healthcare Finance News April 23, 2019
Susan Morse

Pre-existing coverage remains protected, though a new type of high risk pool approach could better tailor coverage for these enrollees, Verma says.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to see more states take advantage of 1332 waivers to the Affordable Care Act, CMS Administrator Seema Verma told stakeholders Tuesday morning in Washington D.C.

The ACA includes Section 1332 to allow states to waive certain ACA regulations to implement new healthcare programs. Eight states have done so, but all but one waiver has been used for a reinsurance program to help pay for high risk claims.

“States can seek waivers of certain federal requirements as long as their proposal meets a set of four guardrails,” Verma said

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