HHS Sets Parameters For State Medicaid Premium Assistance Waivers

HHS says it will consider approving a “limited number” of Medicaid premium assistance 1115 demonstrations for the individual market because they would help inform future policy, but revealed in new guidance that it would only consider state waiver proposals that provide Medicaid beneficiaries with a choice of at least two qualified health plans on the exchange, that are limited to the Medicaid expansion adult population who must enroll in “benchmark coverage” and that make arrangements with the private health plans...