Any health insurance that meets the Affordable Care Act requirement for coverage. If you have qualifying health coverage (or “minimum essential coverage” or “MEC”) you don’t have to pay the penalty for being uninsured through the 2018 plan year.
Examples: individual plans, including Nevada Health Link plans; job-based plans; Medicare; and Medicaid & Nevada Check Up.
A more complete list of qualifying health coverage:
- Job-based plans
- Nevada Health Link plans
- Most individual plans bought outside Nevada Health Link
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Nevada Check Up
- TRICARE
- COBRA
- Plans sold through the Nevada Health Link Small Business Health Insurance Program (SHOP)