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December 16, 2013 at 09:08 AM
Federal regulators’ efforts to help consumers cope with public exchange enrollment problems could hurt carriers.
Steve Zaharuk, an analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, says the exchange plan timeline changes announced late last week reveal “an unstable and evolving regulatory environment.”
Making changes “well after insurers have had to commit to product and pricing decisions” could make the new plans harder to run and expose carriers to greater risks, Zaharuk says in a new commentary.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said last week it will use existing regulatory authority to force exchange carriers to accept payment for coverage starting Jan. 1 up until Dec. 31.
Originally, HHS was going to require consumers to choose QHPs and pay for coverage by Dec. 15.
HHS is pushing the plan selection, and payment, deadline back to Dec. 23.
