Healthcare DIVE August 22, 2019
Linda Wilson

Dive Brief:

  • Enrollment in the individual insurance market — including plans sold on the Affordable Care Act exchanges and elsewhere — may stabilize in 2019, assuming premiums remain flat as they were in the first quarter of 2019, suggests a study released Wednesday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
  • Total enrollment in individual insurance plans fell to 13.7 million as of the first quarter of 2019 — a 5% decline compared with the first quarter in 2018, according to Kaiser Family Foundation estimates. However, this was a much smaller decline in enrollees than was the case in 2017 (12%) and 2018 (11%) when insurance premiums increased substantially.
  • Overall, the number of Americans with health insurance plans bought in the individual...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange
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