"For the 2022 benefit year, HHS is finalizing a user fee rate of 2.25 percent of premiums for issuers offering plans through a Federally-facilitated Exchange (FFE), and a user fee rate of 1.75 percent of premiums for issuers offering plans through State-based Exchanges on the Federal Platform (SBE-FP)....

"HHS is finalizing the proposal to establish in regulation a new option by which a State Exchange, SBE-FP or FFE state may facilitate enrollment of qualified individuals into individual market qualified health plans (QHPs) primarily through approved private-sector, direct enrollment (DE) entities (such as QHP issuers and web brokers)....

"HHS is finalizing a proposal that will require individual market QHP issuers to accept payments made on behalf of an enrollee from an individual coverage health reimbursement arrangement (individual coverage HRA) or qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangement (QSEHRA) when such payments are made using any of the payment methods that QHP issuers are required to accept under existing rules ...

"HHS is finalizing a revision to the QHP network adequacy regulation clarifying that a QHP that does not vary benefits based on whether a covered service is furnished by a provider with whom the QHP has a network participation agreement is not required to comply with the network adequacy standards to be certified as a QHP."