minimum essential coverage

What is minimum essential coverage?

Plans that meet the ACA’s basic provisions. These plans include those sold on the state-based and federally facilitated health insurance exchanges as well as some sold in the private market. Qualifying minimum essential coverage includes:

• Job-based plans
• Health Insurance Marketplace plans
• Most individual plans bought outside the Marketplace
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
• TRICARE
• COBRA
• Plans sold through the Small Business Health Insurance Program (SHOP) Marketplace