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Exchanges required to provide quality metrics of plans in 2016
Insurers selling plans on the marketplaces must disclose the metrics they use to determine the value and cost-effectiveness of plans by 2016, as a way to improve the overall quality of healthcare.
Healthcare performance across the nation: The good, the bad and the stagnant
The results are in, and states' healthcare systems received mixed performance reviews in a new Commonwealth Fund scorecard, which assessed states on 42 indicators of access to healthcare, quality, costs and outcomes from 2007 through 2012, excluding implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Federal vs. state marketplaces: Insurer participation, competition
How did states' approach to Affordable Care Act implementation influence insurer participation, competition and premiums? To find out, a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brief compared five actively pro-reform states with three states that have taken only a limited approach to or have not participated in the healthcare reform law.
Latest ACA fix benefits consumers, state exchanges
Americans who couldn't enroll in health insurance plans due to problems with state exchange websites and bought coverage elsewhere can still get federal tax credits and retroactive cost-sharing, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday.
Maryland exchange still struggles with IT glitches
Maryland officials continue to struggle to make the state's health insurance exchange operable--and one state lawmaker wants to switch to the federal marketplace while the state sorts out the technical problems.
Health exchanges a mixed bag for states
Some states are reporting a boost in enrollments in the last few days before the Dec. 23 deadline for consumers to sign up for a plan sold on the health insurance exchanges. But other states still are struggling with technical glitches that hamper enrollments efforts.
Some health exchanges are better than others
In the two months since health insurance exchanges have been open to the public, it's clear the state-run marketplaces have fared better than their federal counterpart. Exchanges are running smoothly in four states, in particular, primarily because of simple and well-tested functions.
State exchanges bogged down by technical difficulties, too
It's not only the federal health insurance exchange website Healthcare.gov that's facing technical problems; state exchanges also have been bogged down with difficulties, the New York Times reported.
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