Issuers offering individual market QHPs, including stand-alone dental plans, and their downstream entities, must accept premium and cost-sharing payments for the QHPs from the following third-party entities from plan enrollees (in the case of a downstream entity, to the extent the entity routinely collects premiums or cost sharing):
(a) A Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act;
(b) An Indian tribe, tribal organization, or urban Indian organization; and
(c) A local, State, or Federal government program, including a grantee directed by a government program to make payments on its behalf.
[81 FR 12352, Mar. 8, 2016]