Big MLR Rebates Point to Ever-More-Profitable ACA Exchanges

Dec 23
Dec 23, 2021

Recently, CMS revealed that private health plans had to deliver $2 billion in rebates to their customers for the 2020 reporting year, with the bulk of that money going toward individual market enrollees. Affordable Care Act experts say that while the large rebate payout does mean premiums have been overpriced, it’s also indicative of just how profitable the ACA exchanges have become for insurers. Read more
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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.