HHS Unveils Wide-Ranging Draft Exchange Rule

CMS on Wednesday (Nov. 15) unveiled its 2024 draft exchange rule with proposals that aim to increase access to health care, simplify choice, ease enrollment and set new standards for state-based exchanges. Key new policies CMS lays out in a fact sheet on the draft rule include imposing network adequacy requirements for state-based exchanges, allowing states to deem adult dental services as an essential health benefit, and codifying a policy that applies coverage protections for all prescriptions drugs, even those...