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Three federal agencies want to know what kind of care they need to provide for the group major medical insurance arrangements that have been in place since before March 23, 2010.
The "tri agencies" — the Internal Revenue Service, the Employee Benefits Securities Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — are putting out an official request for information about "grandfathered" group plans.
Grandfathered plans are group major medical plans that have been in effect since before former President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act statutory package into law.
The tri-agencies say they believe that only a small number of people still have grandfathered individual major medical policies, but that about 16% of the workers who had group health coverage in 2018 were still enrolled in a grandfathered plan.
The agencies are asking members of the public for grandfathered plan data, and for ideas about how they can help group health plans keep their grandfathered status intact.
