Insurance Exchanges

This document highlights 10 important priorities for consumers and outlines key areas that require stronger protections or clarification in the federal regulations on state health insurance exchanges.

This report from The National eHealth Collaborative, reports on a study of 12 health information exchanges (HIEs) showing that providers have increasingly tapped these types of data clearinghouses in hopes of streamlining and improving the care they deliver.

This brief looks at California's experience in small group exchanges and what the state and federal officials can learn from it.

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.”

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

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.

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.

PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) Health Research Institute (HRI) report is based upon a nationwide survey, commissioned by PwC, of 1,000 consumers and 153 health insurance executives concerning their expectations around health insurance exchanges.

This proposed rule would implement standards for states related to reinsurance and risk adjustment, and for health insurance issuers related to reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment consistent with title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).