CMS Finalizes Controversial Premium Adjustment Despite Opposition

By Amy Lotven / April 18, 2019 at 10:37 PM
CMS has eschewed concerns from wide-ranging stakeholders and adopted a proposal to index premium adjustments to individual market estimates rather than the employer-sponsored rates currently used to measure growth. The controversial proposal finalized in the 2020 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters released on Thursday is expected to increase the health insurance tax paid by most issuers, and thus increase rates, and will also result in subsidized consumers contributing a larger portion of their income to their premiums. Eliot Fishman,...


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