Advocates Pleased With Proposed Consumer Protections For Exchange Plans

Beneficiary advocates who have raised concerns about high cost-sharing and discriminatory plan design in some exchange plans are giving early praise to a CMS regulation issued Friday that proposes to alter prescription drug coverage standards and asks states to select their new essential health benefit benchmark plans for 2017 based on 2014 plans, among other key changes. Both the National Health Council and the AIDS Institute say their initial reading of the 324-page rule indicates HHS is moving in the...