Health Payer Intelligence July 6, 2017
ACA reinsurance and risk adjustment programs successfully stabilized premiums in 2016, CMS says in a new report.
CMS has released the results from 2016 for reinsurance and risk adjustment transfers, two of the “three R’s” used to stabilize premiums in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces.
This marks the third year the agency has disclosed its data on the two premium stabilization programs. Data related to the third “R,” risk corridors, will be announced later this year.
When the ACA marketplaces were launched, the “three R’s” were implemented as a means to provide security for insurers to enter the exchanges and offer compliant plans. Despite political criticism, CMS found that the results of both risk adjustment and reinsurance premium stabilization...
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