Strategic Planning & Timelines

In this paper, the Rockefeller Institute examines the difficulty in implementing the Affordable Care Act in the face of so many uncertainties. It proposes the creation of a new institutional mechanism to monitor and react to changing conditions and to provide feedback to Congress and the president on necessary adjustments to meet the goals of the legislation.

The Pacific Business Group on Health recently released an issue brief touting the top 5 rules for decision support . The list includes strategies that their research indicates will have a large impact on consumers’ plan choice experiences on State Based Exchange (SBE) web portals. 

State Refor(u)m has created a chart tracking states’ selection of vendors for their Exchange and/or Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment IT systems and  the vendors’ roles in building these new systems. This chart also provides information on the software components that these vendors are using and whether states have brought on additional resources, such as developers, program management, and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) or Quality Assurance (QA) vendors.

With new efforts underway to reform health insurance and improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the U.S. health care system, assessing and planning for an adequate health care workforce is critical to meeting this evolving demands of the system. In this report, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions examines the health care worker demand projections and makes recommendations for modernizing the health care workforce planning framework.

Wakely Consulting Group has prepared this policy brief to aid state Exchanges in the process of certifying, recertifying, de-certifying and managing the relationship with qualified health plans (QHPs).