Public Health Emergency Ends
Hooray no masks required. But, now some assistance will end.
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Medicaid will end for many (link)
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Greater APTC is scheduled to end at the end of 2022 (link)
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Build Back Better negotiation window opens (link)
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Unemployment benefits ending, and people back to work (link)
If this is you or someone you know, there will be a Special Enrollment Period for individual health insurance for those that lose Medicaid.
What’s not in the news yet, but will be (about 99.9999% certainty): the public health emergency ends on April 16, and from that point, you can expect cost-sharing (copays, deductibles) to return to the consumer, and not be paid by the federal government or your insurance company.