A lot of information and misinformation has been released lately in regard to the health insurance exchanges, the premiums for policies sold on those exchanges and who will be offering policies.
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The health insurance exchanges are a critical component of the expanded coverage that will supposedly ensue from the reform law. A Government Accountability Office report calls into question the readiness of those exchanges.
While the state health insurance exchanges required by the health reform law have attracted much attention, the private sector has been busy creating its own exchanges and an Accenture report gives a status report on those.
An article published in Health Affairs uses the experience of several other countries to draw lessons for the development and operation of health insurance exchanges in the United States.
The department of Health and Human Services has issued rules regarding the role and use of “navigators” in the health insurance exchanges called for by the reform act.
Sanofi sponsors the Managed Care Digest Series and just released the 2012-13 edition, which contains a plethora of data on HMOs, PPOs and their use and management of prescription drugs.
The Employee Benefits Research Institute publishes its findings from the annual Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey, finding that enrollment in high-deductible plans continues to grow and that there are demographic and behavioral differences in the enrollees in these plans.
Everyone is kind of on tiptoes, waiting to see if medical cost growth is going to stay relatively stable as it has for the last few years, or begin to increase more rapidly. A report from Truven Health Analytics projects modest growth for the coming year.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at [email protected].
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