Insurance Exchanges

This proposed rule addresses what data health insurers must provide to enable regulators to set essential health benefit standards and outlines a process for accrediting qualified health plans.

The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board  has released an RFP to hire a financial consultant to draw up a budget for the exchange and outline the funding options, specific fees to fund the exchange, and the possible impact those fees would have on health plan and premium affordability.

The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation have identified the 10 possible health plans that could serve as the state’s benchmark essential health benefit package.

This guidance outlines the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) approach to implementing a Federally-facilitated Exchange (FFE) in any state where a state-based Exchange is not operating.

Presentations from New York's stakeholder meeting that reviewed recommendations from Wakely Consulting Group relating to risk adjustment and reinsurance mechanisms under the ACA and the state's key decisions in response.

At the Mississippi Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Board's monthly meeting, Leavitt Partners presented on the
following topics: the impact of 2012 political scenarios on health care reform; an overview of essential health benefits final recommendations;
outreach, education, adoption and enrollment in Mississippi.

The Office of the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange issued an RFP to procure the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange System (System).

This Kansas Health Institute brief examines the Affordable Care Act’s provisions for employers and how these rules might alter the system of employment-based insurance.

Rhode Island has released an RFP to procure one or more vendors to design, implement, and operate a technology platform to support both new and existing health insurance initiatives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), support existing human services programs, provide hosting services for the state’s health benefits exchange and integrated eligibility system (HIX/IES), and potentially provide contracted operations of key business functions of the HIX/IES.

This notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) describes and requests comments on several possible approaches to determining whether health coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan provides minimum value.