{"id":28130,"date":"2017-02-21T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?p=28130"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:21:30","slug":"ceo-blog-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connectforhealthco.com\/es\/ceo-blog-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Blog: Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #006a52\">To Our Valued Stakeholders,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">We received guidance this week from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with proposed rules that would govern sales for next year (plan year 2018). We are working on our response to the proposals. The most noteworthy for our operations is the proposal to cut in half the open enrollment period and run it from Nov. 1, 2017, to Dec. 15, 2017. December 15 has consistently been our highest volume day in previous open enrollments. That volume could be expected to increase if it were the final day of the period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The proposed rules also speak to regulations around special enrollment periods, flexibility in plan design, and how carriers would treat renewing members who owe past-due premiums.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The comment period runs through March 7 and final rules will be released at some point after that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #006a52\">Legislative Update\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The Legislature has named new members of the Colorado Health Insurance Exchange Oversight Committee. New to the committee are Representatives Joann Ginal, who represents part of Fort Collins, Chris Kennedy, who represents part of Jefferson County, and Susan Lontine who represents part of Denver. You can find information on the committee and its role on our site, <a href=\"\/get-started\/resources-for-partners\/policymakers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #006a52\">In Recent News\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">I was pleased to see The Denver Post\u00a0took a position endorsing our continued operation in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/02\/12\/colorado-shouldnt-repeal-state-health-exchange\/\">editorial<\/a> Sunday. It was written in response to SB 3 that calls for our repeal. The next hearing on the bill is yet to be scheduled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Take care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Kevin<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Kevin Patterson, MURP, MPA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<i>Chief Executive Officer<br \/>\nConnect for Health Colorado<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Our Valued Stakeholders,\u00a0 We received guidance this week from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services with proposed rules that would govern sales for next year (plan year&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/connectforhealthco.com\/es\/ceo-blog-looking-forward\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CEO Blog: Looking Forward &#8226; 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