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November 28, 2018 Health/Employee Benefits No comments Views: 130

CMS Making It Easier To Enroll In Health Care Online

By Wire Reports

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed a new "enhanced" direct enrollment pathway for consumers to enroll in health insurance coverage through the federally-facilitated exchange.

This new pathway allows CMS to partner with the private sector to provide a more user-friendly and seamless enrollment experience for consumers by allowing them to apply for and enroll in an exchange plan directly through an approved issuer or web-broker without the need to be redirected to HealthCare.gov or contact the exchange call center.

The new pathway improves upon the current direct enrollment pathway which has been in place since 2013, CMS said.

Both pathways allows issuers, agents and brokers, and other third parties certified to sell health insurance (known as web brokers) to assist consumers applying for and enrolling in an exchange plan.

The current direct enrollment pathway requires consumers to be redirected to HealthCare.gov to submit their application and receive an eligibility determination from the exchange. From there, they are redirected back to the partner’s website to complete plan selections and enrollment. This process made for a poor consumer experience and proved burdensome to those private partners assisting consumers.

Enhanced direct enrollment provides a range of custom features and capabilities that allow consumers to apply, enroll, and manage their information through an approved partner website throughout the year. The enrollment partner’s website will connect to HealthCare.gov in a manner that is invisible to the consumer.  Through this new platform, consumers and agents and brokers assisting consumers will be able to go directly to the approved enrollment partner’s website to for the entire application and enrollment experience without being redirected to HealthCare.gov.

In addition, consumers will be able download exchange notices, get status updates, or follow up on actions they need to take directly through the partner’s website.

CMS said it anticipates that the use of this pathway will continue to grow beyond the current open enrollment period as more partners are approved and begin offering enhanced direct enrollment functionality. The time at which each partner will begin providing enhanced direct enrollment capability depends on when each partner finalizes its preparations and is approved. As soon as a partner’s platform goes live, consumers will be able to apply for and enroll in an exchange plan directly through the approved partner’s website.  As CMS approves partner websites to go live, CMS will maintain an updated list on www.cms.gov/CCIIO.

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