Bill > SB284

This bill, the Creating WV Health Care Continuity Act, aims to establish the West Virginia Patient Protection Program, a reinsurance program to provide payment to health insurance issuers for claims of individuals with high healthcare costs in order to lower premiums in the individual market. The bill incorporates provisions of the Health Care Continuity Act into various existing insurance laws, sets parameters for the reinsurance program, and requires minimum policy coverage standards, limits on preexisting condition exclusions, and standards for ratemaking and cost-sharing. The bill also creates a State Commission on Health Care Continuity to recommend policies to replicate the tax credit from the Affordable Care Act if it is deemed invalid.

Business and Industry, Health and Social Services

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