HCTT-2015-61: Health Coverage Providers: Understanding Minimum Essential Coverage
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Issue Number: HCTT-2015-61Inside This IssueHealth Coverage Providers: Understanding Minimum Essential Coverage The Affordable Care Act requires any person or organization that provides minimum essential coverage, including employers that provide self-insured group health plans, to report this coverage to the IRS and furnish statements to the covered individuals. These reporting requirements affect:
For purposes of reporting by applicable large employers, minimum essential coverage means coverage under an employer-sponsored plan. Minimum essential coverage does not include fixed indemnity coverage, life insurance or dental or vision coverage. Minimum essential coverage does include: Government-sponsored programs
Employer sponsored coverage
Individual market coverage
Grandfathered plans
Miscellaneous MEC
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