Add to ORKGConsumer-Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) programs are intended to create nonprofit health insurance issuers that would offer health plans to individual and small group markets. Part of the Affordable Care Act, CO-OPs could have a substantial effect on rural healthcare delivery systems. In this Brief, authors Jean Talbot and Andy Coburn of the Maine Rural Health Research Center at the University of Southern Maine provide an overview of the CO-OP program legislation from the Affordable Care Act; identify the challenges to obtaining private health insurance in rural areas; and assess the opportunities and challenges of using the CO-OP program to address the limitations of the rural private health insurance market. Dr. Coburn participated in...
There are growing concerns about the current and future state of rural health. Despite decades of po...
This paper describes a multistate project that addressed the growing need for health insurance infor...
Part of a series of briefs profiling innovative rural health system transformation models and strate...
Created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) are private,...
Outlines provisions in the federal health reform law for CO-OPs, or innovative nonprofit health insu...
As envisioned by the federal policymakers who designed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program to pro...
A primary goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to reduce the number of ...
KEY FINDINGS: Private insurance is less common in rural areas. Rural residents under age 65 are less...
This study will combine quantitative analysis with administrative health plan practice data with tar...
In this brief, researchers from the Maine Rural Health Research Center (University of Southern Maine...
The liquidation of CoOportunity Health, one of 23 non-profit health insurers created by the Affordab...
The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The mo...
Health insurance literacy is central to identifying eligibility for coverage and subsidies, choosing...
Key Findings: 86% of independent RHCs offer free care, sliding fee scales, or both; 97% were current...
There are growing concerns about the current and future state of rural health. Despite decades of po...
This paper describes a multistate project that addressed the growing need for health insurance infor...
Part of a series of briefs profiling innovative rural health system transformation models and strate...
Created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) are private,...
Outlines provisions in the federal health reform law for CO-OPs, or innovative nonprofit health insu...
As envisioned by the federal policymakers who designed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) created the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program to pro...
A primary goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is to reduce the number of ...
KEY FINDINGS: Private insurance is less common in rural areas. Rural residents under age 65 are less...
This study will combine quantitative analysis with administrative health plan practice data with tar...
In this brief, researchers from the Maine Rural Health Research Center (University of Southern Maine...
The liquidation of CoOportunity Health, one of 23 non-profit health insurers created by the Affordab...
The Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service periodically issues revisions to its publications. The mo...
Health insurance literacy is central to identifying eligibility for coverage and subsidies, choosing...
Key Findings: 86% of independent RHCs offer free care, sliding fee scales, or both; 97% were current...
There are growing concerns about the current and future state of rural health. Despite decades of po...
This paper describes a multistate project that addressed the growing need for health insurance infor...
Part of a series of briefs profiling innovative rural health system transformation models and strate...