RIP MSP Act

Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act or the RIP MSP Act

This bill repeals the multi-state insurance plan program. (The multi-state plan program requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to contract with insurance issuers to provide a qualified health plan through the health insurance exchanges in multiple states.) The OPM must report about the process and timeline for ending the program within 60 days.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2524 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2524

                To repeal the multi-State plan program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2019

 Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
                To repeal the multi-State plan program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-
State Program Act'' or the ``RIP MSP Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MULTI-STATE PLAN PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``multi-State plan 
issuer'' and ``MSP issuer'' mean a health insurance issuer or group of 
health insurance issuers that has a contract with the Office of 
Personnel Management to offer multi-State plan options pursuant to 
section 1334 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public 
Law 111-148).
    (b) Program Repeal.--Effective January 1, 2020, section 1334 of the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) shall 
have no force or effect.
    (c) Termination of External Review.--The administration of external 
review pursuant to section 1334 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act shall conclude upon the issuance by the Director of 
Office of Personnel Management (referred to in this section as ``OPM'') 
of all final decisions for enrollees enrolled in a multi-State plan 
during or before the 2019 plan year.
    (d) Required Reporting.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of OPM shall provide the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce of the House of Representatives a briefing concerning the 
efforts of the OPM to wind down the multi-State program under section 
1334 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Such briefing 
shall contain such information as may be required, including 
information regarding--
            (1) the methods of communication OPM and an MSP issuer will 
        use to notify current enrollees that the multi-State plan will 
        not be offered during the next open season, including a 
        timeline of the planned communications;
            (2) a description of how the Director of OPM will work with 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that no 
        plans previously offered pursuant to such section 1334 are 
        offered on State or Federal Exchanges; and
            (3) a timeline detailing how OPM will close down the 
        information technology portal that MSP issuers utilize.
    (e) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) In general.--Title I of the Patient Protection and 
        Affordable Care Act is amended--
                    (A) in section 1301(a) (42 U.S.C. 18021(a))--
                            (i) in paragraph (2)--
                                    (I) in the heading, by striking 
                                ``and multi-state qualified health 
                                plans''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``and a multi-
                                State plan under section 1334,''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (4), by striking ``, 
                        including a multi-State qualified health 
                        plan,''; and
                    (B) in section 1324(a) (42 U.S.C. 18044(a)), by 
                striking ``, or a multi-State qualified health plan 
                under section 1334,''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
        shall take effect on January 1, 2020.
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