The Department of Health & Human Services has issued a proposed rule for states to apply for innovation waivers that would allow them to enact strategies different from the healthcare reform law, according to an HHS release.
The waivers, starting in 2017, would allow states to implement policies as long as they did not increase federal spending, covered the same number of people and provided the same comprehensiveness and affordability as coverage offered in the new health insurance exchanges created by the law.
Examples of allowable state actions would include new ways for providing tax credits, changing benefit levels and adding new benefit levels, HHS stated.
The rule will be published in the March 14 Federal Register, with comments accepted for the next 60 days.
Read the HHS release on the innovation waivers.
Read more coverage of proposed waivers to the healthcare reform law.
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The waivers, starting in 2017, would allow states to implement policies as long as they did not increase federal spending, covered the same number of people and provided the same comprehensiveness and affordability as coverage offered in the new health insurance exchanges created by the law.
Examples of allowable state actions would include new ways for providing tax credits, changing benefit levels and adding new benefit levels, HHS stated.
The rule will be published in the March 14 Federal Register, with comments accepted for the next 60 days.
Read the HHS release on the innovation waivers.
Read more coverage of proposed waivers to the healthcare reform law.
- Reform Proponents Doubt States Will Find Alternative to Insurance Mandate
- More Than 1,000 Waivers Issued to Insurers on Reform Law
- President Pledges to Widen States' Ability to Alter Medicaid, Allow Earlier Opt-Outs of Reform Requirements