Health Payer Intelligence July 29, 2020
Kelsey Waddill

The risk adjustment payments and charges successfully distributed the costs across participating health payers, the agency said.

The blow to employer-sponsored plans in the final three quarters of 2020 could be lower than anticipated largely because coronavirus impacts have concentrated on lower income populations, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation researchers asserted in a recent study.

These estimates are still preliminary, using data from the Department of Labor.

The researchers found that in the final three quarters of 2020, 48 million Americans—around 14.5 percent of the US population, according to the US Census Bureau—would be in a family in which at least one worker lost his job for coronavirus-related reasons.

Of these 48 million people, about one in five would also lose...

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