# Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2019-04-25 · Effective 2019-06-24 · 84 FR 17454
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-08017
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 17454
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 146
- **Publication date:** 2019-04-25
- **Effective date:** 2019-06-24
- **HHS docket:** CMS-9926-F
## Abstract

This final rule sets forth payment parameters and provisions related to the risk adjustment and risk adjustment data validation programs; cost-sharing parameters; and user fees for Federally- facilitated Exchanges (FFEs) and State-based Exchanges on the Federal Platform (SBE-FPs). It finalizes changes that will allow greater flexibility related to the duties and training requirements for the Navigator program and changes that will provide greater flexibility for direct enrollment entities, while strengthening program integrity oversight over those entities. It finalizes a change intended to reduce the costs of prescription drugs. This final rule also includes changes to Exchange standards related to eligibility and enrollment; exemptions; and other related topics.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/25/2019-08017/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-hhs-notice-of-benefit-and-payment-parameters-for-2020)
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