Tag: health insurance marketplace

How will Premium Rate Changes Affect Consumers’ Renewals into Marketplace Coverage? Lessons Learned from 2015’s Enrollment Season

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As states finalize premium rates for marketplace plans by August 25, we’ll know the extent of changes for 2016 coverage. How will premium changes affect consumers who may be automatically renewed into coverage? CHIR’s Sandy Ahn shares lessons learned from the first year of marketplace renewals and what can be done to improve consumers’ experiences as we head into the next open enrollment season.

Getting Ready for OE3 – New Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Provides Helpful Lessons

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We’re just 12 weeks away from the start of the third open enrollment period (OE3) for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces. The results from a recently released Kaiser Family Foundation survey of health insurance Navigators and brokers offer some helpful insights on ways to improve consumer outreach and enrollment going forward. CHIR’s Hannah Ellison and Sabrina Corlette share some highlights.

New Report: The Experience of Six State-Based Marketplaces with First Year Renewals

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A new report from CHIR researchers Sandy Ahn, Jack Hoadley and Sabrina Corlette revisits six state-based marketplaces that took varying approaches to renewing enrollees into 2015 coverage. The report examines how their different approaches affected enrollment and the consumer experience, and shares lessons learned for the next round of marketplace renewals.

Not One, Not Two but Three New Resources from CHIR: Small Business Health Plans in a Post-ACA World

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There’s been some renewed attention to the status and future of the small business health insurance market, particularly as an Affordable Care Act reform scheduled to go into effect in 2016 could cause some disruption. Last week CHIR researchers contributed to three great new resources to help policymakers and others understand changes in the market and some of the challenges ahead.

New Proposed Rules for Network Adequacy for Medicaid Managed Care Plans – Lessons Learned from Medicare & the Marketplaces

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released draft regulations governing Medicaid managed care plans. In setting standards for network adequacy, the agency looked to both the Medicare Advantage program and the health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act. Sabrina Corlette examines approaches to ensuring adequate plan networks across the three programs.

New Georgetown Report: Assessing Consumers’ Experience with ACA Coverage through the Eyes of State Consumer Assistance Programs

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While the ACA has successfully resulted in 16.4 million newly insured people, we don’t yet know a lot about how that new coverage is working for them. However, state consumer assistance programs (CAPs) have the eyes and ears on the ground to help identify problems or gaps in private insurance coverage. Georgetown researchers surveyed 10 state CAPs and found many common issues for consumers’ coverage experiences, pre- and post-ACA.

Health Plan Narrow Networks: Highlighting Transparency Deficiencies for Consumers

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A recent conference hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on health system transparency allowed a diverse group of stakeholders – state and federal regulators, an insurance industry executive, a provider, and CHIR’s own Sabrina Corlette to discuss how the emergence of narrow provider networks on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces has spotlighted deficiencies in the information available for consumers to make good plan choices. Sabrina Corlette shares some of the issues debated and discussed.

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