Health insurance marketplace deadlines
* June 21: Health insurance companies must apply to offer individual plans in any of Tennessee’s eight regions* July 1: Rates for 2018 must be submitted to the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance* Aug. 16: State regulators approve insurance carriers and premium rates for 2018 in each Tennessee market* Sept. 27: Insurer sends signed agreements to the federal government for next year
Julie Mix McPeakTennessee’s biggest health insurer will restore individual health insurance coverage to the Knoxville market next year, helping to ensure that the East Tennessee market maintains individual coverage in 2018.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which withdrew its individual coverage under the health care exchange market in 2017 in Tennessee’s three biggest markets, said today it will resume selling individual insurance plans under the exchange market in the 16-county Knoxville area where Humana announced plans to withdraw from the individual market next year.