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The retroactive cancellation of a health insurance policy. Insurance companies will sometimes retroactively cancel your entire policy if you made a mistake on your initial application when you buy an individual market insurance policy. Under the Affordable Care Act, rescission is illegal except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material fact as prohibited by the terms of the plan or coverage.
The process of voiding a health plan from its inception usually based on the grounds of material misrepresentation or omission on the application for insurance coverage that would have resulted in a different decision by the health insurer with respect to issuing coverage. The ACA prohibits rescissions except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of a relevant fact. Minn. Stat. 62A.04 further provides that after a health policy has been in effect for two years, no misstatements, except fraudulent misstatements, made by the applicant in the application for such policy can be used to rescind the policy.
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