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CMS canceled about 315,000 HealthCare.gov policies covering more than 760,000 people on August 31. Its new broker rule describes them as broker-assisted enrollments with unverified citizenship or immigration documentation, no identified claims and no consumer contact, and says CMS's additional preventive controls will not be fully operational before Open Enrollment opens November 1.
On August 31 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services canceled approximately 315,000 Plan Year 2026 policies covering more than 760,000 people in the federal Marketplace. CMS's September 22 fact sheet says the cancellations followed confirmation that the enrollments were unauthorized, and that CMS expects about $2.2 billion in advance premium tax credits to be returned. The interim final rule published September 23 (CMS-9872-IFC, 91 FR 60317) describes the same policies as enrolled with agent or broker assistance, without verified citizenship or immigration documentation, where insurers could identify no claims and could not reach the consumer. The rule, effective September 22, bars agents and brokers who had no 2026 Exchange agreement from registering for Plan Year 2027 until February 1, 2027. It cites more than 624,000 confirmed complaints of unauthorized enrollment or plan switching from 2023 through 2025, and says CMS's additional preventive controls will not be fully operational before Open Enrollment opens November 1. Comments are due November 21. None of the documents says how the people whose coverage was canceled were told, or how anyone canceled in error gets coverage back.
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About 4.4 million people with ACA marketplace coverage are in plans that cover abortions beyond the federal exceptions, GAO counted. The law requires a separate $1-a-month charge for that coverage, and GAO found two of 13 insurers it checked were not billing it the ways CMS allows.
GAO's September 15 report, requested by members of Congress, counts which 2026 ACA marketplace plans cover abortion services beyond the cases where federal funding is allowed, and checks how insurers keep that money separate as the law requires. In the 50 states and D.C., 1,719 of 6,655 plans (26 percent) covered them, in 19 jurisdictions, and about 4.4 million enrollees (about 24 percent) were in such plans in June. No plan in the 25 states that restrict this coverage offered it. All 15 insurers GAO surveyed charge the required minimum of $1 per enrollee per month, and those that shared estimates put the actual cost below 50 cents. Two of 13 insurers that bill enrollees directly did not use one of the billing methods CMS regulations allow, and one insurer had no required segregation plan for one state. CMS told GAO it does not collect those plans because the law does not require it to. GAO made no recommendations and does not find that federal funds paid for abortions.
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