States struggle to make health insurance exchanges financially self sufficient
A look at four states facing financial, political and technological hurdles of running health insurance exchange marketplaces.
Analysis: Payer’s pricing gamble is to blame, not Minnesota insurance exchange
http://www.startribune.com/business/275827561.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue Lee Schafer of the Minneapolis Star Tribune puts some context around a big payer’s decision to leave the state’s health insurance exchange, MNSure. Schafer said the decision was the result of the free market and strategic decisions PreferredOne made. PreferredOne is a small health plan that’s insuring employer groups. Schafer said that PreferredOne decided […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
PreferredOne no longer prefers Minnesota’s state insurance exchange
PreferredOne, last year’s top-selling insurer in the Minnesota state insurance exchange, has dropped out of the exchange this year, the Star-Tribune reports. The state’s exchange, MNsure, confirmed the news to the Star Tribune. Last year, PreferredOne offered the lowest price points and gained the most new customers, netting six in 10 consumers who purchased plans offered through […]
Minnesota exchange gains customers as executive director resigns
MNsure, the health insurance exchange for Minnesota, has a new leader after executive director April Todd-Malmlov resigned abruptly at an emergency board meeting Tuesday night. Todd-Malmlov had been under fire for taking a nearly-two-week vacation in Costa Rica in November, at a time when the health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act were struggling […]