Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced its 2018 individual premium rates will increase an average of 22.9 percent for coverage on and off the health insurance exchange in all 100 counties...
The exit of Blue KC from the ACA health insurance exchange in 2018 will affect a 32-county service area in Kansas and Missouri, and leave both urban and rural counties without any marketplace exchange...
The CBO report on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) found the bill would result in 23 million people losing insurance coverage over the next decade. Other impacts of the bill include higher...
Washington State has thus far been a success for the health insurance exchange marketplace. The state has seen robust payer participation, increased enrollment and a trend-bending eight percent...
As of 2018, HealthCare.gov will no longer host the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Marketplace. Usage of the healthcare insurance exchange by insurance producers and overall...
Kaiser Permanente will continue to offer coverage options through the ACA health insurance exchanges during 2018, the payer and provider announced this week.
“Kaiser Permanente will continue to...
Slated to begin in June 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be rolling out a pilot program aimed at tightening scrutiny of those using the special enrollment period on the...
Aetna is ending participation in the Delaware and Nebraska ACA health insurance exchanges, completing its retreat from the public marketplace. The company also made announcements earlier...
Blue Cross-Blue Shield (BCBS) has announced its plans to offer coverage options on Tennessee’s Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange in 2018. The separate rating area consists of 16...
Patients in Maryland looking for insurance in 2018 may have bigger bills than they bargained for. The health insurance exchange rates for individual and group plans in the state have risen by up to 58...
From 2013 to the end of 2016, the percentage of individuals without health insurance dropped across the nation, according to a recent Gallup-Healthways study.
The national percentage of those without...
CMS issued the final version of the 2018 Market Stabilization rule for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchange. The rule focuses on stabilizing the individual and...
Aetna has announced that it will stop participating in the Iowa health insurance exchange in 2018, citing financial losses and market instability as primary reasons to exit.
"Earlier today we...
More than 8 million low income children living with chronic diseases would lose healthcare coverage and incur higher costs if CHIP funding is not extended beyond 2017, says new research from the Yale...
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, which operates in Iowa and South Dakota, will not renew or sell individual plans on the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges effective Jan 1, 2018.
The...
Underwriting margins for payers selling individual plans on the health insurance exchange dropped from a 6 percent earned premium loss in 2014 to a 9.6 percent loss in 2015, Milliman recently reported....
During the 2017 ACA Open Enrollment Period (OEP), more than 12.2 million healthcare consumers purchased or renewed insurance through Healthcare.gov or their local state exchanges, said CMS in a new...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently encouraged states to apply for State Innovation Waivers as a way to stabilize the health insurance exchanges and boost consumer access health...
Consumer satisfaction with the Affordable Care Act fell following the departure of three private payers from the health insurance exchange, according to recent findings from Black Book.
The survey...
CMS recently announced a proposed rule designed to help stabilize health insurance exchanges by promoting more coverage options and improving the risk pool for insurers.
The proposed rule comes just...
