The District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority announced that four insurers have agreed to sell health insurance through its Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exchange system.
The four insurers -- Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET), CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Kaiser Permanente, and a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) -- have applied to sell a total of 34 policies through the district's individual exchange and 259 plans through its Small Business Health Options Program small-group exchange, exchange officials said.
The insurers are supposed to file their exchange plan rates with the exchange by May 31.
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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.
