Add to ORKGDo insurance plans offered through the Marketplace implemented by the State of California under the Affordable Care Act restrict consumers' access to hospitals relative to plans offered on the commercial market? And are the hospitals included in Marketplace networks of lower quality compared to those included in the commercial plans? To answer these questions, we analyzed differences in hospital networks across similar plan types offered both in the Marketplace and commercially, by region and insurer. We found that the common belief that Marketplace plans have narrower networks than their commercial counterparts appears empirically valid. However, there does not appear to be a substantive difference in geographic access as measured by the p...
Background/Aims: Our objective is to determine factors affecting choice of narrow provider network p...
Health insurers increasingly compete based on their networks of covered medical providers. Using dat...
In 2014, prescription drug benefits varied greatly among the health plans offered through Covered Ca...
In June, we presented national data from one of the first attempts to measure the size of provider n...
Medicare Advantage enrollment has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. However, we know comp...
This Issue Brief describes the breadth of physician networks on the ACA marketplaces in 2017. We fin...
Health plans with relatively narrow provider networks have generated widespread debate, mainly conce...
In 2016, ACA marketplace plans offered provider networks that were far narrower for mental health ca...
Health insurance plans with limited networks of providers are common on the Affordable Care Act's (A...
Key Findings: Narrow network plans on the health insurance marketplaces allow consumers to trade-off...
While millions have signed up for health insurance under Obamacare since it launched in 2014, covera...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted health plans to increase their use of “narrow networks” o...
Consumers purchasing health insurance on both state and federally-run exchanges are finding that aff...
In this brief, we describe the breadth of physician provider networks offered on the health insuranc...
California is losing ground in the battle against rising hospital costs. Once a successful model fo...
Background/Aims: Our objective is to determine factors affecting choice of narrow provider network p...
Health insurers increasingly compete based on their networks of covered medical providers. Using dat...
In 2014, prescription drug benefits varied greatly among the health plans offered through Covered Ca...
In June, we presented national data from one of the first attempts to measure the size of provider n...
Medicare Advantage enrollment has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. However, we know comp...
This Issue Brief describes the breadth of physician networks on the ACA marketplaces in 2017. We fin...
Health plans with relatively narrow provider networks have generated widespread debate, mainly conce...
In 2016, ACA marketplace plans offered provider networks that were far narrower for mental health ca...
Health insurance plans with limited networks of providers are common on the Affordable Care Act's (A...
Key Findings: Narrow network plans on the health insurance marketplaces allow consumers to trade-off...
While millions have signed up for health insurance under Obamacare since it launched in 2014, covera...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted health plans to increase their use of “narrow networks” o...
Consumers purchasing health insurance on both state and federally-run exchanges are finding that aff...
In this brief, we describe the breadth of physician provider networks offered on the health insuranc...
California is losing ground in the battle against rising hospital costs. Once a successful model fo...
Background/Aims: Our objective is to determine factors affecting choice of narrow provider network p...
Health insurers increasingly compete based on their networks of covered medical providers. Using dat...
In 2014, prescription drug benefits varied greatly among the health plans offered through Covered Ca...