The Trump administration has published a new proposed rule aimed at stabilizing the individual insurance market. This coincides with NAHU’s emphasis on the critical need to stabilize the individual insurance market.
Critics will say that the rule doesn’t do enough. However, the rule advises that this first step is one of several that will be taken.
One of the provisions calls for individuals to verify that they qualify for a Special Enrollment Period (SEP). Anyone applying for new coverage will be required to provide verification of their SEP beginning in June 2017. Coverage will be pended awaiting verification. The administration estimates that this may impact as many as 650,000 individuals.
The proposal would also require that SEP enrollment due to marriage would require that one of the spouses had minimum essential coverage prior to filing for coverage via SEP. The proposal would also limit changes in metal levels – the richness of the plan – for SEP-related changes.
Comments are due by March 7, 2017.
The rule can be reviewed here.
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