Federal officials intend to relax rules governing medical-loss ratios for health plans sold on the state and federal exchanges owing to problems with the initial open enrollment period.
That plan, which could mean less money flowing back to consumers, was disclosed in a rule published Tuesday (PDF), although no specific details were included.
“We intend to propose standardized methodologies to take into account the special circumstances of issuers associated with the initial open enrollment and other changes to the market in 2014, including incurred costs due to technical problems during the launch of the state and federal exchanges,” the rule states.