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The Final Essential Health Benefits Rule: A Lost Opportunity for Persons with Disabilities?
Health Affairs [Opinion] Mar. 11, 2013 "A draft CMS document ... suggests that the agency will monitor qualified health plans (QHPs) for potential discrimination. But the monitoring process suggested in the draft excludes any mechanism for detecting one of the most potent forms of plan discrimination, the use of benefit designs and coverage determination procedures that cause the denial of coverage for children and adults whose disabilities prevent them from 'recovering' from their disability. Whether the ACA protections are left unimplemented remains to be seen." |
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