Healthcare Finance News December 4, 2019
Jeff Lagasse

It’s the unanticipated consequence of the 2017 cut of the ACA’s cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers.

People in rural areas of the U.S. who receive subsidies to buy health insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplaces pay less in premiums than their counterparts in urban areas, a flip that occurred in 2018 and has been widening since, according to an analysis by University of Pittsburgh, Duke University and University of Minnesota health policy scientists.

The study, published online in the journal Health Affairs, did not find a similar rural-urban flip in premium costs for people buying health insurance in the Marketplaces without subsidies, a group for whom premium costs have nearly doubled in the past five years.

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