The California Health Benefit Exchange board is standardizing the co-payment amounts, coinsurance percentages and other plan design features in all new individual and small-group health policies sold in the state.
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) already requires all non-grandfathered, insured individual and small-group plans to cover the services included in a state's standardized "essential health benefits" (EHB) package starting Jan. 1, 2014.
If PPACA works as drafters expect, insurers will have to sell plans at four "metal levels" — bronze, silver, gold and platinum — based on the percentage of the actuarial value of the EHB package that the plan covers.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
