Health insurance exchanges : availability and coverage issues / Christian Forrest, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forrest, Christian, editor.

Series:

Health care in transition series.

Health Care in Transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Insurance exchanges--United States.

Insurance exchanges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

PPACA required by January 1, 2014, the establishment in each state of health insurance exchanges-marketplaces where eligible individuals and small businesses can compare and select among insurance plans. Issuer participation, including the number of plans these issuers offer, is a key factor in the extent of consumer choice offered by the exchanges. The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to examine the number and types of issuers participating in both the individual and small-business exchanges beginning in 2014, as well as how this compared with issuer participatio

Contents:

""HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES: AVAILABILITY AND COVERAGE ISSUES""; ""HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES: AVAILABILITY AND COVERAGE ISSUES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: LARGEST ISSUERS OF HEALTH COVERAGE PARTICIPATED IN MOST EXCHANGES, AND NUMBER OF PLANS AVAILABLE VARIED""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""BACKGROUND""

""MOST OF THE LARGEST ISSUERS IN THE 2012 INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL-GROUP MARKETS PARTICIPATED IN THE 2014 EXCHANGES, WITH EXCEPTIONS IN SOME STATES""""NEARLY ALL 2014 EXCHANGES HAD MULTIPLE PARTICIPATING ISSUERS, WHICH GENERALLY OFFERED MORE PLANS THAN THE MINIMUM REQUIRED BY PPACA""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS""; ""APPENDIX I: ISSUERS� PARTICIPATION IN THE 2014EXCHANGES AND THEIR 2012 MARKET SHARE""; ""APPENDIX II: NUMBER OF ISSUERS PARTICIPATINGIN THE 2014 INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL-BUSINESSEXCHANGES, BY STATE""

""APPENDIX III: NUMBER OF PLANS OFFERED BYISSUERS PARTICIPATING IN THE 2014 EXCHANGESACROSS RATING AREAS""""APPENDIX IV: NUMBER OF PLANS OFFERED BYISSUERS IN 2014 INDIVIDUAL AND SMALLBUSINESSEXCHANGES""; ""Chapter 2: SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH INSURANCEEXCHANGES: LOW INITIAL ENROLLMENTLIKELY DUE TO MULTIPLE,EVOLVING FACTORS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""SHOPS WERE OPERATIONALIN ALL STATES, ALTHOUGH MANYEXPECTED FEATURES WERENOT YET AVAILABLE AND ENROLLMENTWAS LOW AS OFJUNE 2014""

""STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFIED SEVERALFACTORS THAT MAY HAVE LED TO CURRENTLOW SHOP ENROLLMENT AND THAT MAYAFFECT FUTURE ENROLLMENT GROWTH""""CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS""; ""APPENDIX I: SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH OPTIONS PROGRAM (SHOP) FEATURES AS OF JUNE 1, 2014""; ""APPENDIX II: STATE-BASED SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH OPTIONS PROGRAM (SB-SHOP) ENROLLMENT GENERALLY AS OF JUNE 1, 2014""; ""APPENDIX III: SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH OPTIONSPROGRAM (SHOP) 2014 AVERAGE MONTHLYPREMIUMS FOR SILVER-TIER PLANS""; ""APPENDIX IV: SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH OPTIONSPROGRAM (SHOP) SILVER-TIER PLAN AVAILABILITY""

""Chapter 3: FEDERAL FUNDING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES""""SUMMARY""; ""FEDERAL GRANTS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES""; ""SELF-SUSTAINING REQUIREMENT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES""; ""FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDING FOR EXCHANGES""; ""ADDITIONAL INFORMATION""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63463-924-3

OCLC:

904248987