Bill > HR5610

This bill, the Easy Enrollment in Health Care Act, aims to streamline enrollment in health insurance affordability programs and minimum essential coverage. Key provisions include: The bill establishes a program allowing taxpayers who are not covered by minimum essential coverage to elect, when filing their tax return, to have a determination made on their household members' eligibility for insurance affordability programs like Medicaid, CHIP, and premium tax credits. If eligible, the household member can be automatically enrolled in a zero-net-premium plan, unless they opt out. The bill also modernizes Medicaid and CHIP eligibility criteria, improving the stability and predictability of coverage, and enhances data infrastructure to facilitate eligibility determinations and enrollment. Additionally, the bill appropriates funding for the necessary information technology development and operations.

Business and Industry, Health and Social Services

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5610/all-info