SB 2858

Abstract

Amends the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Law. Provides that the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services have the authority to require, when the Department of Insurance operates the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange as a State-based exchange, the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange to offer enhanced direct enrollment technology that allows approved enhanced direct enrollment entities to maintain enrollment services as offered through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace's enhanced direct enrollment implementation; to require enhanced direct enrollment to be available for the first open enrollment period for the State-based exchange; to require that the State-based exchange adopt the application programming interface for the Federally Facilitated Marketplace's enhanced direct enrollment or adopt an application programming interface that is substantially similar; and to require enhanced direct enrollment entities to be approved to operate in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace and maintain compliance with all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' privacy, security, and business requirements. Defines terms.