Insurance Market Reform

This Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that monthly premiums per person ranged from $136 in Alabama to more than $400 in Vermont and Massachusetts, for a national average of $215.

According to a preliminary determination by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 17 states, the District of Columbia, and 5 territories do not have external review process that meet HHS standards.

The Georgia Health Policy Center released results from the 2011 Georgia Employer Survey showing that less than half of small firms (2 to 500 employees) in Georgia offer employer-sponsored coverage.

In this brief sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors examine premium-contribution requirements for children's and family health insurance coverage through a combination of Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and employer-sponsored insurance in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Washington.

This GAO report describes states' practices for overseeing health insurance premium rates in 2010, including the outcomes of premium rate reviews; and changes that states that received HHS rate review grants have begun making to enhance their oversight of premium rates.

Oregon’s insurance department has put out an animated video on where your premium dollars go and how the state regulates rates.

This brief underscores the process of determining a plan’s actuarial value should produce a measure that can help distinguish plans between coverage tiers, while being as administratively practical as possible.

The report assesses a group of early Foundation investments that supported projects and policy analyses aimed at restructuring or strengthening the individual and small-group insurance market.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved Iowa 's request to adjust the 80 percent MLR standard.

July 22, 2011 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved Kentucky's request to adjust the 80 percent MLR standard.