KFF Health News November 21, 2019
Since the Affordable Care Act marketplaces opened in 2014, there have been many changes in insurer participation as companies entered and exited states, or changed their footprint within states. A number of insurers are entering the market or expanding their service area for 2020. This year, 18 states are seeing a total of 26 new entrants (see Table 1) and an additional 54 insurers are expanding their service areas within states.1 There will be an average of 4.5 insurers per state in 2020, up from 4.0 in 2019 and 3.5 in 2018, but down from a...