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• June 22, 2012

  New ERRP Center Hours of Operation

  Effective June 28, 2012, the hours of operation for the ERRP Center are Monday through Friday, 10:30AM – 7:00PM, ET.

• April 26, 2012

  ERRP Secure Website Unavailable:
  April 28, 2012 – May 2, 2012

  The ERRP Secure Website (SWS) will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from 12:00AM ET on Saturday, April 28 through approximately 9:00AM ET on Wednesday,
  May 2.

• March 30, 2012

  ERRP Deadline Extension Notice

  The deadline for Plan Sponsors that have received ERRP reimbursement for a given plan year to submit an error-free Claim List that passes the automated edits and an associated reimbursement request for that plan year has been extended from March 30, 2012 to April 27, 2012.

• March 16, 2012

  Notice Announcing Deadline for Using
  ERRP Funds

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a Federal Register notice establishing a timeframe by which plan sponsors participating in the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) are expected to use ERRP reimbursement funds.

• February 17, 2012

  Update on ERRP Payment Processing

  Today, the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) published an updated reimbursement report that identified the payments that have been made to Plan Sponsors from the
  $5 billion appropriated to this temporary program.

• February 17, 2012

  Early Retiree Reinsurance Program: Reimbursement Update

  The information in the February 17 report includes all payments made to approved plan sponsors through January 19, 2012.

• December 16, 2011

  Updated ERRP Program Guidance: Allocating Post-Point of Sale Negotiated Price Concessions to Individual Early Retirees Under the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program

  CMS has updated the June 7, 2011 guidance entitled Allocating Post-Point of Sale Negotiated Price Concessions to Individual Early Retirees Under the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program.

  Please reference this document on the Regulations and Guidance page.

• December 9, 2011

  Update on ERRP Payment Processing
  and Announcement of End Date for Newly Incurred Claims

  As of December 2, 2011, the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) disbursed over $4.5 billion to a variety of businesses, including for-profit companies, schools and educational institutions, unions, State and local governments, religious organizations and other nonprofit Plan Sponsors, to help reduce their health plan benefit costs and those of their plan participants, including early retirees and their spouses, surviving spouses, dependents, and active workers.

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