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Release Notes: Thursday, December 5th at 6:00am ET (Health Insurance Update)

04 Dec 19
Craig Smith
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The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, December 5th to release the below software update. Majority of items scheduled in this deploy are back-end items, however, one user facing item will be the new Health Insurance flow for 2019.

HEALTH INSURANCE

  • Update the Health Insurance flow for 2019
    • Remove calculation of Shared Responsibility Payment
    • Removing non-applicable pages
      • Coverage exemptions
      • Calculation of Affordability Exemption and related items
      • Months of coverage for each Household member
    • Keeping pages specific to needed 1095-A information, if applicable

New 2019 Flow

  • Scenario 1
    • 1st Question – “Did you purchase Health Insurance via Healthcare.gov or a State Marketplace?
      • If No, Health Insurance menu is complete.
  • Scenario 2
    • 1st Question – “Did you purchase Health Insurance via Healthcare.gov or a State Marketplace?
      • If Yes, continue to “Household Members” page > Provide 1095-A(s) details > Review “Household Income” page (displays if dependent or additional household members are present and have a filing requirement) > Health Insurance menu is complete.

 

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

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