CMS Says Tax Form Glitch Doesn't Affect SHOP, After Chabot Queries Burwell

Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell how small businesses were affected by tax forms with incorrect health insurance data that were sent to more than 800,000 people this year, but CMS tells Inside Health Policy that the forms Chabot is concerned about did not go to small businesses. The 1095-A forms used the wrong benchmark plan to calculate premium subsidies for each consumer, resulting in tax obligations that were too high or too low,...