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HHS: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Marketplace Integrity and Affordability
Federal Register
Jun 25, 2025 - Notice of final rule related to implementation of Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance
Marketplace. Among other things, this rule revises
standards relating to past-due premium payments;
establishes the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an
agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance;
revises standards related to income eligibility
verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing
reductions, annual eligibility redetermination, the annual
open enrollment period and special enrollment periods; and
more. These regulations are effective August 25, 2025.
Source: Federal Register