Coming of Age: Extended Health Coverage for Children to Age 26.
Mondaq Business Briefing › Nbr. 2010, January 2010
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Coming of Age: Extended Health Coverage for Children to Age 26.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended ("PPACA"), requires group health plans that offer health coverage to employees' or subscribers' children to make such coverage available until the child's 26th birthday. 1 PPACA's extended coverage mandate for children applies to insured and self-insured group health plans and to insurance issuers in both the individual and group markets.
On May 10, 2010, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury issued regulations, effective May 12, 2010, implementing the dependent coverage mandate under PPACA. The regulations require group health plans and issuers to offer a special enroll...See the full content of this document
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