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The issuers of the individual major medical plans sold through HealthCare.gov rejected about 19 percent of the 187 million in-network health care claims they received in 2017, according to a new analysis released by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

A team of analysts led by Karen Pollitz found that claim rejection rates for specific issuers ranged from 1 percent up to 40 percent.

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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.