Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Exchange Functions: Eligibility for Exemptions; Miscellaneous Minimum Essential Coverage Provisions

February 1, 2013
On February 1, 2013, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule to implement rules the individual mandate required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to include determining eligibility for and granting certificates of exemption from the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential coverage; and defining the responsibility of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, to designate other health benefits coverage as minimum essential coverage by providing that certain coverage be designated as minimum essential coverage. It also outlines substantive and . . .