HIPAA Special Enrollment Rights

Group health plans often provide eligible employees with two regular opportunities to elect health coverage—an initial enrollment period when an employee first becomes eligible for coverage and an annual open enrollment period before the start of each plan year. In addition, to make health coverage more portable, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) …

MARKET STABILIZATION PROPOSED RULE ISSUED

  On Feb. 15, 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a market stabilization proposed rule under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The proposed rule includes new reforms intended to stabilize the individual and small group health insurance markets for the 2018 plan year. Specifically, the rule proposes a variety of policy …