Original Health and Human Services Website link to ObamaCare exemptions PDF of Waiver List as of 1/7/2011 (222 organizations)

Note: sometime in the Spring of 2011 HHS stopped putting the waiver list in one place. It can be accessed in pieces at the link below.

http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/files/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

The below links are the same as those on the link above. They were working as of 9/22/2011 (followed by # of organizations):

• Self Insured Employers (631) (475,000 people)
  
  
  
• Health Reimbursement Arrangements (491) (130,000 people)
  
  
  
• Multi-Employer Plans (391) (1M+ people)
  
  
• Non-Taft Hartley Union Plans (30)
  This is a list of unions that have received waivers of the annual dollar limit requirements for health plans offered to their members. Most of these
  plans are collectively bargained agreements between a union and employer(s). In some cases, these plans provide supplemental coverage to
  employer-based health plans.
  
  
• Health Insurance Issuers (41)
  
  
• State-Mandated Policies (5)
  In some States, issuers are required to offer standardized policies with specific annual dollar limits established by State law. These State-mandated annual limits are below the minimum annual limit set by HHS. In such instances, States may apply for a waiver of the annual dollar limit requirements on behalf of issuers of State-mandated policies if State law required the policies to be offered by the issuers prior to September 23, 2010. Although the State may apply on the issuers’ behalf, the application must still satisfy the standard that compliance of the annual dollar limit requirements by the issuers would result in a “significant decrease in access to benefits” or a “significant increase in premiums.”
  
  
• Association Plans (2)
  

Waiver applications will no longer be accepted after September 22, 2011. On June 17, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
introduced a process for plans that have already received waivers and want to renew those waivers for plan or policy years beginning before January
1, 2014. The new guidance extends the duration of waivers that have been granted through 2013, if applicants submit annual information about their
plan and comply with requirements to ensure that their enrollees understand the limits of their coverage. Existing waiver recipients must apply to
extend their current waiver and all applications must be submitted by September 22, 2011; after that date applications for an extension will no longer
be considered. Any plans that have not yet applied for a waiver also must apply by September 22, 2011.

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