The federal agency in charge of HealthCare.gov is quietly preparing for the2018 open enrollment period — and responding tocomplaints that agents and brokers may have pushed someconsumers into 2017 health coverage without their permission.

The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight(CCIIO) talked about its procedures for handling sham enrollmentreports in a collection of slidedecks posted on a private technicalassistance 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 inthrough 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.

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