{"id":518188,"date":"2021-11-27T01:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518188"},"modified":"2021-11-27T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:34:05","slug":"usa-employer-healthcare-plans-cant-deny-benefits-to-unvaccinated-customers-but-can-offer-premium-discounts-to-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518188","title":{"rendered":"USA &#8211; Employer healthcare plans can&#8217;t deny benefits to unvaccinated customers but can offer premium discounts to vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Employer group health plans cannot deny benefits to customers who have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine but can offer premium discounts to customers who decide to get the shot, new guidance from the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But plans that increase premiums on the unvaccinated will have that increase count toward whether that coverage is affordable under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/payer\/cms-employer-plans-can-t-deny-benefits-to-unvaccinated-customers-but-can-offer-premium\">https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/payer\/cms-employer-plans-can-t-deny-benefits-to-unvaccinated-customers-but-can-offer-premium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employer group health plans cannot deny benefits to customers who have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine but can offer premium discounts to customers who decide to get the shot, new guidance from the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=518188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}