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Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) & Uniform GlossaryAs part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal government announced new rules regarding the disclosure of the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and Uniform Glossary. These regulations require group health plans and health insurance issuers that offer coverage for groups and individuals to provide access to the SBC and Uniform Glossary.Summary of Benefits & Coverage page
Affordable Care Act | ACAThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as the "Affordable Care Act" (ACA), has three stated objectives: to increase health care accessibility, affordability and quality. The Affordable Care Act implemented and enforces the individual responsibility (also known as "Individual Mandate") and the employer shared responsibility (also known as "Play-or-Pay") provisions to support these objectives.Affordable Care Act page
IRS 1095-C StatementThe IRS 1095-C statement generated by the State of Arizona serves as documentation to the IRS about coverage offered to you. The information from the form will be used to determine whether you will pay a penalty for failing to have health care coverage as required by the ACA. Think of the form as your “proof of insurance” for the IRS.Affordable Care Act page
Health Insurance Marketplace Notice | ADOAFor State Employees - Key parts of the health care law (ACA) allow you to buy health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace. To assist you as you evaluate options for you and your family, a notice that provides some basic information about the new Marketplace and the Benefit Options health coverage is available.Marketplace Notice
Health Insurance Marketplace Notice | ASUFor ASU Employees - Key parts of the health care law (ACA) allow you to buy health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace. To assist you as you evaluate options for you and your family, a notice that provides some basic information about the new Marketplace and the Benefit Options health coverage is available.ASU Marketplace Notice
Health Insurance Marketplace Notice | NAUFor NAU Employees - Key parts of the health care law (ACA) allow you to buy health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace. To assist you as you evaluate options for you and your family, a notice that provides some basic information about the new Marketplace and the Benefit Options health coverage is available.NAU Marketplace Notice
Health Insurance Marketplace Notice | UAFor UA Employees - Key parts of the health care law (ACA) allow you to buy health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace. To assist you as you evaluate options for you and your family, a notice that provides some basic information about the new Marketplace and the Benefit Options health coverage is available.UA Marketplace Notice
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)This notice protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information and establishes who can use personal health information and how it can be used.HIPPA Notice
HIPPA | Special Enrollment RightsThe notice provides information regarding special enrollment. You may be able to enroll in the Benefit Options health plan without waiting for the next open enrollment period if you request a QLE change within 31 days of an event for loss of other coverage or birth, adoption or placement for adoption. In addition, you may enroll if you become eligible for a state premium assistance program under Medicaid or CHIP. You must request enrollment within 60 days after you gain eligibility for medical plan coverage.HIPPA Special Enrollment Rights
Medicare Notice of Creditable CoverageThis notice has information about prescription drug coverage through the Benefit Options program for participants with Medicare. It explains the options you have under Medicare prescription drug coverage (Medicare Part D) and can help you decide whether or not you want to enroll.Medicare Creditable Coverage Disclosure Notice
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) Coverage NoticeNotice of the Arizona Benefit Options Program COBRA Coverage. This notice has important information about your right to COBRA continuation coverage, which is a temporary extension of coverage under the Plan.COBRA Notice
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA)Notices of the Arizona Benefit Options Program in reference to PPACA.Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act Notice
Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA)This notice describes mandated benefits for mastectomy-related services and informs individuals that services are available for such treatment and services, including reconstructive surgery, prosthesis, and lymphedema treatment, and explains how to obtain a detailed description of the mastectomy-related benefits under the Plan.Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act Notice
Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act of 1996This notice provides that health plans and issuers may not, under federal law, restrict benefits for any hospital length of stay in connection with childbirth for the mother or newborn child for prescribing a length of stay not in excess of 48 hours (or 96 hours). The plan may not require that a provider obtain authorization from the Plan for prescribing the minimum length of stay.Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act Notice
Notice of Non-DiscriminationBenefit Options complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude or treat people differently based their race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.Notice of Non-Discrimination
Wellness ProgramThis notice requires employers that offer wellness programs that collect employee health information to inform employees what information will be collected, how it will be used, who will receive it, and what will be done to keep it confidential.Wellness Program Notice

 

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