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Three Major Insurers Will Expand ACA Exchange Footprints in 2023

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    Sep 09, 2022

    Galvanized by a growing, stable Affordable Care Act exchange market and a looming dropoff in Medicaid membership, some of the country’s largest health insurers in 2023 are once again expanding their ACA marketplace footprints. At the same time, two startup insurers are pulling out of select markets — although one policy expert tells AIS Health that those moves mainly reflect how difficult it is to compete against companies with dominant market shares. 

    Katherine Hempstead, senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says significant enrollment growth in Southern states appears to be driving some insurers’ expansion moves this year. 

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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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