---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 156.815"
title: "45"
number: "156.815"
heading: "Plan suppression."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/156.815"
---

# §156.815. Plan suppression.

- (a) Suppression means temporarily making a QHP certified to be offered through the Federally-facilitated Exchange unavailable for enrollment through the Federally-facilitated Exchange.
- (b) **Grounds for suppression.** A QHP may be suppressed as described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section on one or more of the following grounds:
  - (1) The QHP issuer notifies HHS of its intent to withdraw the QHP from a Federally-facilitated Exchange when one of the exceptions to guaranteed renewability of coverage related to discontinuing a particular product or discontinuing all coverage under § [147.106(c)](/cfr/45/147.106.md?p=c) or [(d)](/cfr/45/147.106.md?p=d) of this subchapter applies;
  - (2) Data submitted for the QHP is incomplete or inaccurate;
  - (3) The QHP is in the process of being decertified as described in § [156.810(c)](/cfr/45/156.810.md?p=c) or [(d)](/cfr/45/156.810.md?p=d), or the QHP issuer is appealing a completed decertification as described in [subpart J](/cfr/45/subpartJ.md) of this part;
  - (4) The QHP issuer offering the QHP is the subject of a pending, ongoing, or final State regulatory or enforcement action or determination that could affect the issuer's ability to enroll consumers or otherwise relates to the issuer offering QHPs in the Federally-facilitated Exchanges; or
  - (5) One of the exceptions to guaranteed availability of coverage related to special rules for network plans or financial capacity limits under § [147.104(c)](/cfr/45/147.104.md?p=c) or [(d)](/cfr/45/147.104.md?p=d) of this subchapter applies.
- (c) A multi-State plan as defined in [§ 155.1000(a)](/cfr/45/155.1000.md?p=a) of this subchapter may be suppressed as described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section if OPM notifies the Exchange that:
  - (1) OPM has found a compliance violation within the multi-State plan, or
  - (2) **One of the grounds for suppression in paragraph (b) of this section exists for the multi-State plan.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[80 FR 10875, Feb. 27, 2015]

### Source

Source: 78 FR 54143, Aug. 30, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 18021-18024, 18031-18032, 18041-18042, 18044, 18054, 18061, 18063, 18071, 18082, and 26 U.S.C. 36B.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 77411, Dec. 13, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[80 FR 10875, Feb. 27, 2015]