More 2014 public health insurance exchange menu news has been pouring out — and raising questions, in some cases, about whether exchange coverage prices will be too high, too low or just right.
Covered California, a state-based exchange agency, reported that it ended up getting 12 of the 13 carriers offered individual exchange slots and six of the six carriers offered small-group slots to sign contracts. Just one regional carrier — Ventura County Health Care Plan — dropped out.
The Wisconsin Office of the Insurance Commissioner announced the federally run exchange in that state has attracted filings from 13 individual market qualified health plan issuers and nine SHOP carriers. Common Group Healthcare Cooperative, one of the new member-owned, nonprofit co-op plans created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, could be on both the individual and SHOP exchange.
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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.
