CMS Extends 'Grandmothered' ACA Non-Compliant Plans Through 2018

CMS announced Thursday that it would extend issuers' ability to sell ACA non-compliant individual and small group plans through most of 2018. Without the change, all plans not complying with ACA market reforms would be phased out as of Dec. 31, 2017, but industry has been urging CMS to extend the policy and sources expected the agency would take action through guidance . In 2013, the Obama administration let state insurance commissioners allow ACA non-compliant plans to stay in their...