Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/18032
Timestamp: 2015-07-07 17:36:15
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 18032', '§ 18032', '§ 18032', '§ 1312', '§ 10104', '§ 10104', '§ 10104', '§ 10104', '§ 10104']

42 U.S. Code § 18032 - Consumer choice | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
U.S. Code › Title 42 › Chapter 157 › Subchapter III › Part B › § 18032 42 U.S. Code § 18032 - Consumer choice
Qualified individuals A qualified individual may enroll in any qualified health plan available to such individual and for which such individual is eligible.
Qualified employers (A)
Employer may specify level A qualified employer may provide support for coverage of employees under a qualified health plan by selecting any level of coverage under section 18022
(d) of this title to be made available to employees through an Exchange.
Employee may choose plans within a level Each employee of a qualified employer that elects a level of coverage under subparagraph (A) may choose to enroll in a qualified health plan that offers coverage at that level.
Payment of premiums by qualified individuals A qualified individual enrolled in any qualified health plan may pay any applicable premium owed by such individual to the health insurance issuer issuing such qualified health plan.
Single risk pool (1)
Individual market A health insurance issuer shall consider all enrollees in all health plans (other than grandfathered health plans) offered by such issuer in the individual market, including those enrollees who do not enroll in such plans through the Exchange, to be members of a single risk pool.
Small group market A health insurance issuer shall consider all enrollees in all health plans (other than grandfathered health plans) offered by such issuer in the small group market, including those enrollees who do not enroll in such plans through the Exchange, to be members of a single risk pool.
Merger of markets A State may require the individual and small group insurance markets within a State to be merged if the State determines appropriate.
State law A State law requiring grandfathered health plans to be included in a pool described in paragraph (1) or (2) shall not apply.
Empowering consumer choice (1)
Continued operation of market outside Exchanges Nothing in this title [1]
shall be construed to prohibit—
a health insurance issuer from offering outside of an Exchange a health plan to a qualified individual or qualified employer; and
a qualified individual from enrolling in, or a qualified employer from selecting for its employees, a health plan offered outside of an Exchange.
Continued operation of State benefit requirements Nothing in this title [1]
shall be construed to terminate, abridge, or limit the operation of any requirement under State law with respect to any policy or plan that is offered outside of an Exchange to offer benefits.
Voluntary nature of an Exchange (A)
Choice to enroll or not to enroll Nothing in this title [1]
shall be construed to restrict the choice of a qualified individual to enroll or not to enroll in a qualified health plan or to participate in an Exchange.
Prohibition against compelled enrollment Nothing in this title [1]
shall be construed to compel an individual to enroll in a qualified health plan or to participate in an Exchange.
Individuals allowed to enroll in any plan A qualified individual may enroll in any qualified health plan, except that in the case of a catastrophic plan described in section 18022
(e) of this title, a qualified individual may enroll in the plan only if the individual is eligible to enroll in the plan under section 18022
Members of Congress in the Exchange (i)
No penalty for transferring to minimum essential coverage outside Exchange An Exchange, or a qualified health plan offered through an Exchange, shall not impose any penalty or other fee on an individual who cancels enrollment in a plan because the individual becomes eligible for minimum essential coverage (as defined in section 5000A
(f) of title 26 without regard to paragraph (1)(C) or (D) thereof) or such coverage becomes affordable (within the meaning of section 36B(c)(2)(C) of such title).
Enrollment through agents or brokers The Secretary shall establish procedures under which a State may allow agents or brokers—
to enroll individuals and employers in any qualified health plans in the individual or small group market as soon as the plan is offered through an Exchange in the State; and
to assist individuals in applying for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions for plans sold through an Exchange.
Qualified individuals and employers; access limited to citizens and lawful residents (1)
Qualified individuals In this title: [1]
In general The term “qualified individual” means, with respect to an Exchange, an individual who—
is seeking to enroll in a qualified health plan in the individual market offered through the Exchange; and
resides in the State that established the Exchange.
Incarcerated individuals excluded An individual shall not be treated as a qualified individual if, at the time of enrollment, the individual is incarcerated, other than incarceration pending the disposition of charges.
Qualified employer In this title: [1]
In general The term “qualified employer” means a small employer that elects to make all full-time employees of such employer eligible for 1 or more qualified health plans offered in the small group market through an Exchange that offers qualified health plans.
Extension to large groups (i)
Large employers eligible
Access limited to lawful residents If an individual is not, or is not reasonably expected to be for the entire period for which enrollment is sought, a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States, the individual shall not be treated as a qualified individual and may not be covered under a qualified health plan in the individual market that is offered through an Exchange.
(Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1312, title X, § 10104(i),Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 182, 901.)
2010—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(i)(1), inserted “and for which such individual is eligible” before period at end.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(i)(2)(B), struck out concluding provisions which read as follows: “Such procedures may include the establishment of rate schedules for broker commissions paid by health benefits plans offered through an exchange.”
Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(i)(2)(A), inserted “and employers” after “enroll individuals”.
Subsec. (f)(1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10104(i)(3), struck out “(except with respect to territorial agreements under this subsection)” before period at end.
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