2013 Cultural, Linguistical Appropriate Services: The ACA requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to provide the summary of benefits and coverage (SBC) and uniform glossary in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. In addition, group health plans and health insurance issuers offering non-grandfathered health insurance coverage must provide relevant notices in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
The regulations require these plans and issuers to make certain accommodations for notices sent to an address in a county meeting a threshold of 10 percent or more of people who are literate only in the same non-English language, as determined based on American Community Survey (ACS) data published by the United States Census Bureau.
As a reminder, in order to meet these requirements the plan or issuer must:
The list of all counties which meet or exceed the 10 percent threshold for the 2007-2011 ACS data applicable for 2013 is now available. This list will be updated annually.
