Insurance Market Reform

This issue brief, from the Commonwealth Fund, estimates the rebates expected in each state if the new Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rules had been in effect a year earlier.

This brief gives a summary of HHS final rules on reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment from Wakely Consulting Group.

This Milliman report updates a previous report that provides an overview of guaranteed issues and community rating reforms adopted in eight states in the 1990s.

This Urban Institute report found that only seven percent of the population under age 65 would have to newly purchase health insurance or face a penalty under the health law.

This chart pack pulls together many of the major findings and analyses from recent state and national research efforts on Massachusetts health care spending.

In this paper, Georgetown University researchers discuss the phenomenon of employers increasingly turning to workplace wellness initiatives to curb rising health care costs and the growing prevalence of chronic conditions.

New York held a stakeholder meeting to discuss findings from a research study by Wakely Consulting on the New York broker market. Consultants from Wakely presented policy options for the state to consider, and a range of state-based groups shared their perspectives on broker and navigator strategies with state officials.

This final rule implements standards for States related to reinsurance and risk adjustment, and for health insurance issuers related to reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment consistent with the ACA.

This paper, by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, outlines the criteria for state rate reviews.

This report contains the initial results of the New York Department of Financial Services investigation of surprise medical bills