From the Mouths of Actuaries: Analysis Dives Into Earliest ACA Rate Filings

  • Aug 02, 2024

    With Affordable Care Act premium rate requests now filed for 2025, industry observers are eagerly awaiting data from the federal government detailing how exchange insurers are pricing their health plans. In the meantime, a new analysis that combs through some of the earliest rate filings offers insights into the various factors insurers and their actuaries are considering.  

    “One piece of good news is that there’s just not the turbulence that we’ve seen in past years,” Sabrina Corlette, co-founder of the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR), tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT. In a July 29 CHIR blog post, Corlette detailed what she learned from a deep dive into insurers’ rate requests in Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, D.C. — states where regulators require health plans to submit their rate filings one to two months before the July 17 federal deadline that applies to most states.  

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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.

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