Insurance Exchanges

Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families has produced a brief that provides an overview of the duties of navigators, training requirements, selection criteria and financing options. 

This report, produced for the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, profiles and compares four health-related consumer assistance call centers in Maryland to inform the Exchange’s decision making about development of a call center or leveraging with an existing one to meet the needs of consumers.

The Pacific Business Group on Health has released the second installment of decision support rules for health exchanges and a related data file to help states work with carriers to obtain the information necessary to inform high quality consumer decision support rules.

This Commonwealth Fund issue brief analyzes the choices being made by the group of states that have already begun establishing exchanges, either through legislation or executive order.

This Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland report on the economic impact of health reform in Maryland found that the ACA will benefit the state’s budget by more than $600 million through 2020, generate more than $3 billion in annual economic activity, and create more than 26,000 jobs.