CMS is also
creating special enrollment periods for people who live in hurricane areas who want to change their Medicare health or prescription drug plans or make changes to their 2017 federal health exchange plan.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is urging the state to investigate Health Republic Insurance of New York and to
create a special enrollment period for the nearly 200,000 customers who will lose their coverage as a result of the co-op shutting down by the end of the month.
But state - run exchanges had some flexibility in terms of making the switch to a shorter enrollment period, and state - run exchanges also have the ability to
create special enrollment periods that can be added to the regular open enrollment period (the way MNsure did at the end of the 2017 open enrollment period).
Furthermore, consistent with similar exclusions under the marketwide regulations for Exchange - specific special enrollment periods, we are also clarifying that the triggering event described at § 155.420 (d)(6) will not
create a special enrollment period to enroll outside the Exchange to the extent it concerns an individual who becomes newly eligible for APTC or who has a change in eligibility for cost - sharing reductions other than a total elimination of eligibility, since financial assistance is only available for coverage purchased through an Exchange.
Permanently relocating can
create a special enrollment period.
Not exact matches
Commenters expressed concern that codifying these
special enrollment periods would extend them to both State - based Exchanges and the off - Exchange market and recommended that HHS develop additional methods for handling operational issues outside of
creating new
special enrollment periods.
The proposed revisions in paragraph (b)(2)(i) align regulatory policy for
special enrollment periods based on a court order with other similar
special enrollment period types, and
create operational efficiencies for Exchanges by streamlining effective date options across similar
special enrollment period qualifying events related to a qualified individual gaining or becoming a dependent.
Tip: If you miss the Open
Enrollment period, the birth of a child will create a «Qualifying Life Event,» which allows a Special Enrollment Period to be cr
period, the birth of a child will
create a «Qualifying Life Event,» which allows a
Special Enrollment Period to be cr
Period to be
created.
All of these changes reflect existing FFE practice in implementing
special enrollment periods authorized by the Affordable Care Act and existing regulations, and do not
create new
special enrollment periods for consumers.