This final rule contains provisions to improve implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including payment parameters and provisions related to the HHS-operated risk adjustment and risk adjustment data validation (HHS-RADV) programs, as well as 2027 user fee rates for issuers offering qualified health plans (QHPs) through Federally-facilitated Exchanges (FFEs) and State-based Exchanges on the Federal platform (SBE-FPs). This final rule also includes provisions related to civil money penalties (CMPs) for noncompliant issuers and other responsible entities; standards governing agents, brokers, and web-brokers; the expansion and codification of hardship exemption eligibility; implementation of the State Exchange Improper Payment Measurement (SEIPM); provider access standards and essential community provider standards for QHP certification; QHP certification of non-network plans; a prohibition on issuers from including routine non-pediatric dental services as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB); requirements related to defrayal for the cost of any State-required benefits in addition to the EHB; cost- sharing flexibilities for catastrophic and individual market bronze plans; establishment of catastrophic plans with plan terms of up to 10 consecutive plan years; QHP issuer quality improvement strategies (QISs); and revisions affecting which enrollees are included in Federal Basic Health Program (BHP) payment calculations to States. This final rule also includes amendments to implement certain provisions of the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC) legislation.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DHS is proposing to update the fee required by section 100016 of the Budget Reconciliation Act (known as the HR-1). This fee applies to certain aliens ordered removed in absentia who fail to depart the United States and are subsequently arrested by ICE. DHS is proposing to increase the fee from $5,130 to $18,000. This rule also makes clear that DHS will adjust this fee for inflation each year.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a pair of executive orders aimed at preventing undocumented immigrant workers from using the U.S. financial system and expanding financial technology firms' access to Federal Reserve payment accounts and services.
Federal prosecutors urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to revive lawsuits against California and Oregon claiming states are required to hand over voter registration lists that include driver's license and Social Security numbers, saying the data would be used to look for noncitizens and others not eligible to vote.
Four former employees of Lindsey Wilson University sued the school and several of its officials in Kentucky federal court, alleging they were fired in retaliation for raising concerns about the school's lack of compliance with immigration law in its handling of international students.
Homeland Security Investigations St. Louis and the Department of Justice announced that Richard James Miller, 41, of St. Francois County, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison.
Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
A California federal judge on Monday rejected the U.S. government's contention that a prior order limiting its ability to hold migrant minors in hotels applied only to expulsions tied to a public health order put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The District of Columbia said neither federal law nor the D.C. Code authorizes the president's deployment of the D.C. National Guard for law-enforcement activities in the district, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the deployment.