Healthcare Enrollment Reform Modernization And Navigation Act
A BILL
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the enrollment of retiring individuals in the Medicare program.
Sec. 2 Coordination of Medicare benefits with other health care insurance
“(vi) Coordination of benefits with other health care insurance—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event that an individual is enrolled in an employer group health plan (including a multiemployer or multiple employer group health plan) by virtue of current employment status with an employer that does not have 20 or more individuals in current employment status for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current calendar year and the preceding calendar year and the individual is eligible but not enrolled in coverage under part B, such employer group health plan shall not reduce benefits under the plan with respect to the individual on the basis that the individual could have been enrolled in coverage under part B. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall require such employer group health plan to provide coverage to an individual who elects to enroll in coverage under part B or to prohibit such plan from terminating such coverage or reducing benefits if such individual makes such election.”