Monday, July 22, 2013




State Action Round-Up on Affordable Care Act Implementation


In less than six months, the major health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act will go into effect. This is the second post in a series that offers an overview of action on the new state health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, and expansion in eligibility for the Medicaid program.
Insurance Marketplace Updates
Beginning on October 1, 2013, Americans who do not have affordable health benefits through a job will be able to go to a new health insurance marketplace in their state and enroll in a private health plan. Adults with annual incomes up to 400 percent of poverty ($45,960 for an individual and $94,200 for a family of four) will be eligible for premium tax credits to help reduce the cost of coverage. In most states, companies with 50 or fewer employees will also be able to select plans through their state’s small-business marketplaces.
Currently, 16 states and the District of Columbia intend to operate a state-based marketplace, while the remaining 34 states will have a federally facilitated marketplace. Seven of these 34 states will conduct plan management activities and/or consumer assistance and outreach functions in a state–federal partnership model. Another seven of the 34 will conduct plan management activities only, and one, Utah, will operate the small-business marketplace while the federal government operates the individual marketplace.
Here is a list of recent state and federal activity.
Action on state-based marketplaces:
  • New York state regulators announced that insurance rates for plans sold through the exchange in 2014 are as much as 50 percent lower than what individuals currently pay to purchase a plan on their own. 
  • More.......


http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Blog/2013/Jul/State-Action-Roundup-July-19.aspx

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