Insurance Exchanges news and information

A California law that created an agency to oversee national healthcare reforms granted it sweeping authority to conceal its spending on contractors.
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A for-profit company that owns three hospitals in New Jersey said that it has formed a health system and is planning to offer a Medicaid plan and sell insurance on the state exchange about to launch under the healthcare reform law.
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The wide variation in states' spending to hire and train navigators and others to assist consumers in the first year of the new marketplaces could have a major impact on how many people actually get coverage under the new health law, experts say.
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States are beginning to get a handle on how many choices they'll offer consumers this fall as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's experiment with creating competitive insurance markets out of whole cloth takes shape.
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As healthcare providers and analysts continue to digest more than 1,400 pages of the CMS' recent inpatient prospective payment proposed rule, they are analyzing how the agency would implement a new payment methodology for Medicare disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments next year.
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One of the last undecided Democratic governors has opted to expand Medicaid. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced his intention to urge funding of the expansion by the Democratic-led Legislature after considering it for nearly a year.
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As states and the federal government work feverishly toward having health insurance exchanges ready for enrollment by Oct. 1, much of the discussion has focused on technology readiness, guidance from the CMS and competition from insurers. But one crucial element not brought up as often but still...
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The nation's largest health insurers are far from leaping at the chance to join new state health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, making it likely that some markets will have little or no competition next year.
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While consumers are likely to benefit from the CMS shortening the federal health insurance exchange application form, the decision could pose problems for states that are already far along in developing their exchange IT systems, according to the executive director of one state-run...
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Today is the deadline for insurers to apply to offer qualified health plans in state-run exchanges, and the submissions will signal the vigor of competition as the marketplaces begin enrolling members in October.
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