Healthcare DIVE June 3, 2020
Hailey Mensik

Dive Brief:

  • Health plans issued by Blue Cross Blue Shield companies accounted for nearly half of Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollment in 2018, but health plans that traditionally focus on Medicaid are a growing source of competition, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  • BCBS insurers hold all or almost all enrollment in the marketplaces of 11 states: Alaska, Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming, researchers found through an analysis of CMS data from 39 states using the federal Healthcare.gov platform.
  • In eight states — Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio and Texas — Medicaid insurers make up the majority of...

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