PERC - Timeline - 2014
Implement individual health insurance and employer responsibility requirements
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Create state-based health insurance exchanges and provide choice through multi-state plan
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Require guaranteed issue and limited rating restrictions
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Create essential benefits package and require its use in all qualified plans
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Provide refundable and advanceable tax credits to individuals and families (income 133-400% FPL)
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Expand small business tax credits
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Prohibit all pre-existing condition exclusions
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Eliminate all lifetime limit caps for essential benefits
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Expand Medicaid to patients <65 with incomes up to 133 percent FPL
- Implementation date: Jan. 1, 2014
Establish Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) tasked with developing comprehensive proposals to reduce excess cost growth and improve care quality in Medicare
- Implementation date: First recommendations due Jan. 15, 2014, (funding available Oct. 1, 2011)
Reduce Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital payments
- Implementation date: Oct. 1, 2014
Adopt single set of operating rules health claims or equivalent encounter information, enrollment and disenrollment in a health plan, health plan premium payments, and referral certification and authorization
- Implementation date: Rules adopted July 1, 2014; effective Jan. 1, 2016
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