Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner To Block CMS' Re-Enrollment Plan

CMS' plan to automatically place consumers who will lose their exchange coverage into a similar plan has hit a barrier in Wisconsin, after the state confirmed it will neither conduct its own automatic re-enrollment nor let CMS run the process without a fight. Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel announced in an Aug. 19 letter that Wisconsin will tell issuers in a forthcoming bulletin that CMS' automatic re-enrollment “scheme” violates state law, and any plan that accepts consumers through that process will...