Phased Transparency Reporting Plan Delays Off-Exchange Collection

HHS will again delay enforcement of the Affordable Care Act's transparency reporting provisions for non-qualified health plans and non-grandfathered group plans, marking the second time in as many years that the federal government has pushed back rulemaking on data collection. The law's reporting provisions are aimed at shining a light on off-exchange plans that aren't subject to the same scrutiny as QHPs, such as self-funded employer-based plans that are exempt from many of the ACA's reforms, and opponents of the...