Managed Healthcare Executive March 28, 2021
New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the latest to set up state-based exchanges. Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico and Virginia, which currently have hybrid state-federal programs, are expected to be next.
A growing number of states are weaning themselves off of the federal ACA exchange, Healthcare.gov, and establishing their own state-based exchanges, according to the Center on Health Insurance Reform (CHIR) at Georgetown’s Health Policy Institute.
Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico and Virginia currently have hybrid programs that are state-based but use the federal platform. Those four states are scheduled to start their own platforms soon, Rachel Schwab and Nia Gooding wrote in a CHIR blog post last week.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the latest to set up state-based exchanges. Kentucky, Maine,...