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GAO Issues Report on Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit Calculations

Dec 5, 2024

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report on how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) calculates and applies health insurance premium tax credits in relation to certain non-mandated state benefit costs.  GAO found that CMS exercised inadequate oversight of state health benefit costs and had no assurance that it was applying health insurance premium tax credits properly.  To read the GAO report on proper application of health insurance premium tax credits, use the first link below.  To read GAO highlights of the report on proper application of health insurance premium tax credits, use the second link below.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107220.pdf  (GAO report on proper application of health insurance premium tax credits)

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107220-highlights.pdf  (GAO highlights on proper application of health insurance premium tax credits)