Insurer Participation in Rural Health Insurance Marketplaces: Are Some Markets Intrinsically More Competitive Than Others?
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Description
Policy position brief reporting on analyses of insurer participation data in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, Medicare Advantage, and Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs). Assesses to what extent participation in HIMs may be associated with prior levels of local market competition. Includes statistics on prior market competition in low-population-density counties in 2014 and 2017, and county characteristics associated with low insurer participation, with comparisons between metro and nonmetro counties.
Author(s)
Abigail R. Barker, Timothy D. McBride, Keith J. Mueller
Date
06/2019
Type
Document
Organization
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Tagged as
Health insurance · Health reform · Medicare · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data