{"id":"IA-069","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Iowa","state":"IA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Iowa Insurance Division (Commissioner Doug Ommen)","authority":"Iowa Code §§ 505.8, 513B, 513C; Governor\u0027s March 17, 2020 proclamation","instrument":"Bulletin 20-04, Individual and Small Group Coverage Impacted by COVID-19","title":"Bulletin requesting all health insurers and HMOs to allow at least a 60-day premium grace period before terminating individual and small-group coverage for premiums due March 17 to June 30, 2020","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-19","end":"Grace-period window for premiums due through June 30, 2020","startDate":"2020-03-19","endDate":"2020-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["all health insurance companies and HMOs writing in Iowa"],"clause":"\u0027In light of Governor Reynolds\u0027s March 17, 2020 proclamation of a State of Public Health Disaster Emergency... The Commissioner requests all health insurers and health maintenance organizations licensed in this state to allow a premium payment grace period for any Iowa individual health benefit plan... and to any health benefit plan issued to small employers... Health insurers and health maintenance organizations are requested to allow any individual or small group policyholder at least 60 days after a premium payment is due before terminating coverage for any such policyholder who has a premium payment initially due between March 17, 2020, and June 30, 2020.\u0027","enforcement":"Regulatory request of the Commissioner (not a mandate); the Governor\u0027s March 26 proclamation (IA-005 § 3) separately directed the Commissioner to require telehealth payment parity","functions":["IN insurance: premium collection and cancellation practice changed","CB payers"],"notes":"The Division\u0027s COVID-19 bulletins (20-03 to 20-10) governed insurer conduct; this one is saved as the exemplar. The telehealth payment-parity order is in IA-005.","sourceUrl":"https://iid.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/bulletin_20-4_individual_and_small_group_coverage_impacted_by_covid-19.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":131089,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IA","url":"/library/IA-069","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IA-069","citation":"Iowa Insurance Division (Commissioner Doug Ommen), Bulletin 20-04, Individual and Small Group Coverage Impacted by COVID-19 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. IA-069)","stateName":"Iowa","related":["IA-005"]}