CMS Invites Feedback on Yet Another Data Gathering Effort
Published Date: 2/13/2026
Notice
Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants your thoughts on their plan to collect some info from the public. This helps make sure the paperwork isn’t too much and is useful. If you have ideas or concerns, send them in by April 14, 2026—your input could save time and money for everyone!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Marketplace Enrollee Survey Updated
CMS is renewing the Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Enrollee Experience Survey for 2027–2029 and proposing revisions to the survey starting in 2027. Changes include removing four tobacco-use questions, replacing two race and ethnicity questions with one that aligns with OMB revisions, refining telehealth questions, adding five screening (“gate”) questions, allowing issuer name customization, permitting oversampling at any level, adding a third email reminder on Day 40, and extending telephone dialing to begin on Day 48. The proposed collection would involve 72,008 respondents and totals 12,013 annual hours.
Summary of Benefits for 30M Shoppers
CMS continues the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and Uniform Glossary information collection that supports consumer protections under the Affordable Care Act. The collection is intended to ensure over 30 million consumers shopping for or enrolled in private, individually purchased, or non-federal governmental group health plan coverage receive standardized SBCs to compare plan options. The paperwork pair lists 90,805 respondents, 10,507,165 responses, and totals 204,140 annual hours.
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