§ 155.1615 Information submission.
(a) HHS will issue an Annual Program Schedule to each State Exchange no later than January 5th of the Measurement Year. The Annual Program Schedule will specify the deadlines for all information submissions required under this section.
(b) On an annual basis, each State Exchange must submit or make available to HHS the following information:
(1) Program documentation. Policy, operational and technical documentation concerning business rules and APTC calculations that pertain to consumer eligibility and enrollment processes of the State Exchange as well as information that describes the data system architecture of the State Exchange such as entity relationship diagrams and data dictionaries.
(2) Universe. For the Plan Year being reviewed, a listing of the population of tax households that have associated QHP enrollments and payments of APTC. For each tax household within the universe, the State Exchange must submit the following information:
(i) Exchange assigned policy identifier;
(ii) Tax household grouping identifier;
(iii) SSN inconsistency indicator;
(iv) Citizenship inconsistency indicator;
(v) Lawful presence inconsistency indicator;
(vi) Annual income inconsistency indicator;
(vii) Non-employer sponsored minimum essential coverage inconsistency indicator;
(viii) Employer sponsored minimum essential coverage inconsistency indicator;
(ix) Incarceration inconsistency indicator;
(x) Residency inconsistency indicator;
(xi) Number of tax household members; and
(xii) APTC amount paid over the duration of the benefit year.
(3) Tax household Data. For each of the sampled tax households and in a format specified by HHS:
(i) Information pertaining to the calculation of the APTC benefits paid that includes monthly enrollment premium amounts, monthly APTC payment amounts, monthly Second Lowest Cost Silver Plan Premium amounts, and the amount of each monthly premium that is attributable to essential health benefits.
(ii) Information relevant to enrollment that includes dates and amounts of effectuation payments, premium payment amount, and policy start and end dates.
(iii) Information relevant to the determination of eligibility for a special enrollment period (where applicable), which would include (where applicable) information collected by the State Exchange about consumer attestations and representations regarding special enrollment period eligibility criteria, copies of documentary evidence submitted by applicants, electronic verification information, and timing information.
(iv) Information about the timing of QHP certification or approval, the coverage area of the associated QHP, and the timing of any QHP decertification or suppression.
(v) To the extent applicable, for each person who is included in the APTC payment calculation:
(A) Information collected by the State Exchange about consumer attestations regarding QHP and APTC eligibility factors and demographic information relevant to initial QHP enrollment and eligibility.
(B) APTC eligibility and payment determinations which includes evidence of required data verifications, the electronic sources consulted, the timing of required verifications, and the results of the verification.
(C) Information relevant to QHP and APTC manual eligibility verifications and the resolution of electronic verification inconsistencies, which would include copies of documentary evidence submitted by QHP enrollees, the timing of submissions, the timing of adjudication, and information about good faith extensions.
(D) Information relevant to QHP and APTC eligibility redeterminations such as information about automatic annual redeterminations, the timing and results of periodic examinations of data sources, and policy or application changes initiated by the consumer and resultant electronic or manual eligibility verifications.
(vi) Any consumer submitted documents that were used to establish new or continued eligibility for enrollment in a QHP and APTC.