CMS Creates New Special Enrollment Periods For Medicaid Error, Income Gaps

Consumer advocate and broker sources are praising two new special enrollment periods that will let people enroll in subsidized coverage on healthcare.gov if they were denied due to a system error or because they lived in a non-Medicaid expansion state and were below the poverty line but then saw an increase in income. CMS outlined the new, 60-day special enrollment periods (SEPs) in a memo quietly released Aug. 4. Consumer advocates and brokers have been in contact with the administration...