The plans highlighted in green below qualify as Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most reasonably comprehensive insurance available for purchase in 2016 qualified as MEC. Taxpayers who have coverage under the plans highlighted in green below will not be subject to Shared Responsibility Payments (i.e., tax penalties) under the ACA.
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Employer-sponsored coverage:
· Employee
coverage (including self-insured plans)
· COBRA
coverage
· Retiree
coverage
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Individual health coverage:
· Health
insurance you purchase from an insurance company directly
· Health
insurance you purchase through the Health Insurance Marketplace
· Health
insurance provided through a student health plan
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Coverage under government-sponsored
programs:
· Medicare
Part A coverage
· Medicare
Advantage plans
· Most
Medicaid coverage (see here for exceptions)
· Children’s
Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
· Most
types of TRICARE coverage under chapter 55, title 10 of the United States
Code (see here for exceptions)
· Comprehensive
health care programs offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs
· State
high-risk health insurance pools (only for a plan year beginning on or before
December 31, 2014, unless recognized as minimum essential coverage by HHS)
· Health
coverage provided to Peace Corps volunteers
· Department
of Defense Nonappropriated Fund Health Benefits Program
· Refugee
Medical Assistance
Source: IRS link |
Friday, January 9, 2015
List of insurance plans that qualify as "Minimum Essential Coverage" under ACA
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