Health Affairs December 29, 2017
On December 28, 2017, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service, released its final weekly enrollment snapshot for the 2018 Open Enrollment Period. It also published its final 2019 actuarial value calculator, actuarial calculator methodology, 2016 medical loss ratio (MLR) report, and 2016 medical loss ratio public use files.
Marketplace Enrollment
A total of 8,743,642 consumers actively selected a plan or were passively enrolled in a plan in the 39 states served by HealthCare.gov during the 2018 open enrollment period. This number is down from the 8,822,329 enrollees reported during week seven in the December 15 report. New enrollees were up from 2,394,107 in the week seven report to 2,460,431 in the final report, but consumers renewing coverage were down from...