{"id":58491,"date":"2012-11-28T02:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/proposed-rules-for-health-insurance-market-reforms-and-essential-health-benefits\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:30:39","slug":"proposed-rules-for-health-insurance-market-reforms-and-essential-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/proposed-rules-for-health-insurance-market-reforms-and-essential-health-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Rules for Health Insurance Market Reforms and Essential Health Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 20, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited proposed rules for health insurance market reforms and essential health benefits. These provisions of the <em>Affordable Care Act<\/em> (<em>ACA<\/em>) are meant to protect patients with pre-existing conditions from discrimination and provide protections against other insurance company abuses. We\u2019re now in the process of reviewing the hundreds of pages and will provide comments to CMS on or before the due date.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During ACA negotiations, NORD worked closely with Congress to ensure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>elimination of discrimination based on pre-existing medical conditions;<\/li>\n<li>elimination of annual and lifetime insurance caps;<\/li>\n<li>elimination of the ability of insurers to discontinue coverage for people who received dire diagnoses; and<\/li>\n<li>a public health insurance option to ensure that everyone could afford coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time to make sure CMS abides by Congressional intent and continues to protect the interests of rare disease patients and their families.\u00a0 NORD will be monitoring this, and the following materials may help you follow this important topic also:<\/p>\n<p>HHS Press Release<\/p>\n<p>Market Reforms, <a title=\"Fact Sheet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/news\/factsheets\/2012\/11\/market-reforms11202012a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fact Sheet<\/a> and Rule<\/p>\n<p>Essential Health Benefits, <a title=\"EHB Fact Sheet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/news\/factsheets\/2012\/11\/ehb11202012a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fact Sheet<\/a> and Rule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 20, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited proposed rules for health insurance market reforms and essential health benefits. These provisions of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/proposed-rules-for-health-insurance-market-reforms-and-essential-health-benefits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proposed Rules for Health Insurance Market Reforms and Essential Health Benefits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[233,234,235,236,237,238,239,240,241,242],"class_list":["post-58491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-cms","tag-congress","tag-diane-dorman","tag-essential-health-benefits","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-insurance-caps","tag-market-reforms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}