Insurance Exchanges

This issue brief examines states' progress in setting up the state-based health insurance exchanges.

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has identified four potential models of exchanges: a bare-bones information aggregator, a retail-orientated exchange, a guided exchange that limits carriers though a “competitive selection process” and a so-called “market curator.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released draft rules on the implementation of Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program under the Affordable Care Act.  This program will fund the creation of CO-OPs to offer qualified health plans in insurance exchanges.

This Milliman brief discusses the organizations that are most likely to create CO-OPs, the challenges to developing CO-OPs, and areas where CO-OPs can help improve quality and reduce costs.

Monitor where states are on creating their health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act and what those exchanges may look like through the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Exchange Monitor, featuring new data on Statehealthfacts.org.