Another PPACA Loophole?

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Can a self-funded employer  limit risk by limiting frequency of benefits?

“Treatment limitations include limits on benefits based on the frequency of treatment, number of visits, days of coverage, days in a waiting period, or other similar limits on the scope or duration of treatment. Treatment limitations include both “quantitative treatment limitations,” which are expressed numerically (such as 50 outpatient visits per year), and non-quantitative treatment limitations, which otherwise limit the scope or duration of benefits for treatment under a plan or coverage. A permanent exclusion of all benefits for a particular condition or disorder is not a treatment limitation. As explained above, classifications of benefits include (i) inpatient, in-network; (ii) inpatient, out-of-network; (iii) outpatient, in-network; (iv) outpatient, out-of-network; (v) emergency care; and (vi) prescription drugs.”  – Mintz Levin, Employment Labor & Benefits

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