How a health plan loses grandfathered status
Any of these six criteria under the health reform law
If any one of the following changes were made to a policy at any time since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law on March 23, 2010, the plan will lose its grandfathered status:
• coverage for a particular condition or illness is eliminated,
• an annual dollar limit on benefits is imposed or an existing limit is reduced,
• a coinsurance percentage is increased to any extent,
• a dollar co-payment is increased by more than the greater of $5.00 indexed for medical inflation or 15% (one-time allowance) plus medical inflation beyond what was in effect at the time the law was enacted,
• deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums are increased by more than 15% (one-time allowance) plus medical inflation beyond what was in effect at the time the law was enacted, or
• the employer changes eligibility requirements in certain ways or increases its employees’ contributions to premium by more than 5% plus medical inflation.
In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.
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