0938-AS93 201610 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Expatriate Health Plans, Expatriate Health Plan Issuers, and Qualified Expatriates; Excepted Benefits; Lifetime and Annual Limits; and Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance (CMS-9932-F)

This document contains final regulations on the rules for expatriate health plans, expatriate health plan issuers, and qualified expatriates under the Expatriate Health Coverage Clarification Act of 2014 (EHCCA). This document also includes conforming amendments to certain regulations to implement the provisions of the EHCCA. Further, this document finalizes standards for travel insurance and supplemental health insurance coverage to be considered excepted benefits and revisions to the definition of short-term, limited-duration insurance for purposes of the exclusion from the definition of individual health insurance coverage. These regulations affect expatriates with health coverage under expatriate health plans and sponsors, issuers and administrators of expatriate health plans, individuals with and plan sponsors of travel insurance and supplemental health insurance coverage, and individuals with short-term, limited-duration insurance. In addition, this document amends a reference in the final regulations relating to prohibitions on lifetime and annual dollar limits and proposes to require that a notice be provided in connection with hospital indemnity and other fixed indemnity insurance in the group health insurance market for it to be considered excepted benefits.

]]> Other Significant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage No No 26 CFR 1 26 CFR 46 26 CFR 54 26 CFR 57 ... Pub. L. 113-235 Pub. L. 111-148 No NPRM 06/10/2016 81 FR 38019 NPRM Comment Period End 08/09/2016 Final Action 01/00/2017 No No Federal No No No 1545-BN44 Related to 1210-AB75 Related to 1545 Internal Revenue Service IRS Joint 1210 Employee Benefits Security Administration EBSA Joint Jacob Ackerman Health Insurance Specialist 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 301 492-4179 jacob.ackerman@cms.hhs.gov Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, MS: 733H.02, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244