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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 14. Insurance
Agency 7. State Corporation Commission, Health Benefits Exchange Division
Chapter 10. Rules Governing the Certified Application Counselor Program
12/14/2024

14VAC7-10-70. Prohibitions on fees, consideration, solicitation, and marketing.

A CDO or a certified application counselor may not:

1. Impose any charge on a consumer, an applicant, or an enrollee for application or other assistance related to the exchange;

2. Act as an insurance agent or broker;

3. Receive any consideration directly or indirectly from any health insurance issuer or other insurance issuer in connection with the enrollment of any individual in a qualified health plan or qualified dental plan or a nonqualified health plan or nonqualified dental plan;

4. Provide compensation to any individual certified application counselor on a per-application, per-individual-assisted, or per-enrollment basis;

5. Provide to an applicant or potential enrollee a gift of any value as an inducement for enrollment. The value of a gift provided to an applicant and potential enrollee for purposes other than as an inducement for enrollment shall not exceed nominal value, either individually or in the aggregate, when provided to that individual during a single encounter. For purposes of this subdivision the term "gift" includes gift items, gift cards, cash cards, cash, or promotional items that market or promote the products or services of a third party but does not include the reimbursement of legitimate expenses incurred by a consumer in an effort to receive exchange application assistance, such as travel or postage expenses;

6. Solicit any consumer for application or enrollment assistance by going door-to-door or through other unsolicited means of direct contact with a consumer to provide application or enrollment assistance without the consumer initiating the contact, unless the individual has a preexisting relationship with the individual certified application counselor or CDO and other applicable state and federal laws are otherwise complied with; or

7. Initiate any telephone call to a consumer using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice, except in cases where the individual certified application counselor or CDO has a relationship with the consumer and so long as other applicable state and federal laws are otherwise complied with.

Statutory Authority

§§ 12.1-13, 38.2-223, and 38.2-6515 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 37, Issue 8, eff. January 1, 2021.

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