The federal agency in charge of HealthCare.gov is quietly preparing for the 2018 open enrollment period — and responding to complaints that agents and brokers may have pushed some consumers into 2017 health coverage without their permission.
The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) talked about its procedures for handling sham enrollment reports in a collection of slidedecks posted on a private technical assistance website earlier this week.
Officials do not say how common the sham enrollment problem is, or whether they have any indications of sham enrollments coming in through distribution channels other than agents and brokers.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
