Policy and Legislation
Insurers pulling out of market has prompted law to help seriously ill patients keep doctors even if they don't contract with new health plan.
Ohio's insurance department will work with insurers to finalize the products and rates that will be available in 2018.
"I'm not sure" was the most common response to every question in this year's survey, NueMD said.
The number of consumers in these plans has dropped from 330,000 to 50,000, and those that remain have gotten older and sicker without new customers to balance the risk pool, according to the insurer.
Organizations say reducing the reporting burden on clinicians and increasing flexibility is making the broad changes more manageable.
The ACA gave states the option to put their own stamp on the law and Kentucky was the only Southern state that chose to do so with Kynect.
The state's Human Services department migrated its legacy eligibility systems to a modernized network in 2014, but the Inspector General's office found flaws caused by insufficient controls.
Centene, Blue Cross Blue Shield in individual states, others, fill gaps left by Anthem's exit from exchange market.
The five categories of special statuses ultimately determine the requirements you will have to comply with when you participate in MIPS, expert says.
Initiatives attempted "wholesale practice transformation," which yielded little financial gain or improvements in quality, authors wrote.