Oscar Health broadening ACA marketplace footprint

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• The expansion strategy would provide Oscar general protection in 14 markets in nine states.Oscar registered 250,000 members this year, doubling its private insurance markets. Dive Insight: Oscar’s growth plan comes as Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the White Home continue

  to rail against the Affordable Care Act(ACA). Though Congress cannot rescind and replace the ACA in 2015, they did handle to eliminate the individual required penalty for 2019. The required was a key(though out of favor)part of the ACA. Some conservative legislators reportedly plan on taking another perform at the ACA once again this year.In addition to Capitol Hill, President Trump continues to bash the program. Trump took several stabs at damaging the ACA in 2015, consisting of ending cost-sharing decrease (CSR)payments to insurers, cutting the open enrollment duration and

  lowering the program’s outreach and marketing budget plans. All of this has caused uneasiness among payers. Significant insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Humana and Anthem pulled back or totally from the exchanges for 2018. That wasn’t the case for technology-focused Oscar. The New york city City-based payer has actually grown in both the ACA

  marketplace and in other insurance coverage locations over the past year. In a

  post announcing the newest growth, Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser said health care faces regulatory unpredictabilities, but the business stays concentrated on consumerism and creating a more budget friendly system

  . The in the coming years. Another< a href =http://www.theactuarymagazine.org/new-rules-to-expand-association-health-plans/ target=_ blank > recent report from the Society of Actuaries said expanding AHPs will result in up to 10%of people in ACA plans to leave the marketplace for lower-cost AHPs.Recommended Reading: