Scope and Purpose. 956 CMR 5.00 establishes the criteria for the lowest threshold health benefit plan that an individual must purchase in order to satisfy the legal requirement that a Massachusetts Resident have health coverage that constitutes minimum creditable coverage so as to avoid paying a penalty to the Department of Revenue pursuant to M.G.L. c. 111M, § 2. Minimum creditable coverage is designed to provide individuals (and dependents) purchasing the coverage with financial access to a broad range of health care services, including preventive health care, without incurring severe financial losses as a result of serious illness or injury.
956 CMR, § 5.01