Sentences with phrase «portability of a group plan»
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Where a long term care policy is offered separately from a group health plan it is considered an excepted benefit and is not subject to the portability and guarantee issue requirements of HIPAA.
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In 1996, HIPAA amended ERISA to require portability, nondiscrimination, and renewability of health benefits provided by group health plans and group health insurance issuers.
Under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), employer - sponsored (group) plans were allowed to impose pre-existing condition exclusion periods if a new enrollee didn't have at least 12 months of creditable coverage (ie, had been uninsured prior to enrolling in the group plan) without gaps of 63 or more days (18 months of creditable coverage could be required if the person was enrolling in the group plan late, after his or her initial enrollment window had passed).