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Republican States Bolstered Their Health Insurance Rate Review Programs Using Incentives From the Affordable Care Act.

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    • المصدر:
      Publisher: Sage Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0171671 Publication Model: Electronic-Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1945-7243 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00469580 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Inquiry Subsets: MEDLINE
    • بيانات النشر:
      Publication: Sept. 2013- : Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage
      Original Publication: Chicago, Blue Cross Assn.
    • الموضوع:
      Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act* ; Politics* ; State Government*; Insurance, Health/*economics; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. ; Health Policy ; Humans ; Medicaid ; United States
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      The Affordable Care Act (ACA) included financial and regulatory incentives and goals for states to bolster their health insurance rate review programs, increase their anticipated loss ratio requirements, expand Medicaid, and establish state-based exchanges. We grouped states by political party control and compared their reactions across these policy goals. To identify changes in states' rate review programs and anticipated loss ratio requirements in the individual and small group markets since the ACA's enactment, we conducted legal research and contacted each state's insurance regulator. We linked rate review program changes to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) criteria for an effective rate review program. We found, of states that did not meet CMS's criteria when the ACA was enacted, most made changes to meet those criteria, including Republican-controlled states, which generally oppose the ACA. This finding is likely the result of the relatively low administrative burden associated with reviewing health insurance rates and the fact that doing so prevents federal intervention in rate review. However, Republican-controlled states were less likely than non-Republican-controlled states to increase their anticipated loss ratio requirements to align with the federal retrospective medical loss ratio requirement, expand Medicaid, and establish state-based exchanges, because of their general opposition to the ACA. We conclude that federal incentives for states to strengthen their health insurance rate review programs were more effective than the incentives for states to adopt other insurance-related policy goals of the ACA.
      (© The Author(s) 2015.)
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    • Grant Information:
      K01 AG036740 United States AG NIA NIH HHS; K01AG036740 United States AG NIA NIH HHS
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Affordable Care Act; federalism; health care reform; health insurance rate review; policy implementation; politics
    • الموضوع:
      Date Created: 20150924 Date Completed: 20151221 Latest Revision: 20191210
    • الموضوع:
      20221213
    • الرقم المعرف:
      PMC5813645
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1177/0046958015604164
    • الرقم المعرف:
      26396089