Final Rule for essential health benefits released by HHS
Earlier this morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule on essential health benefits, actuarial value, and accreditation for individual and small group plans sold within state or federal health insurance exchanges. The final rule reiterated the majority of the Administration's proposals from its proposed rule, released late last year. Insurers must cover 10 broad categories of care and offer "comparable" coverage measured against insurance plans available to large employers or government employees. The full text of the 149-page rule is available here. For additional press reports on the rule, click here or here.