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Colorado Health Exchange’s Marketing Budget Draws Enrollees, Critics

By Arthur Kane, The Denver Post March 27, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Colorado officials on both sides of the aisle are arguing over the effectiveness of the $8 million marketing spend the state’s insurance marketplace.

California Marketplace Among First to Post Customer Health Plan Ratings

By Anna Gorman January 30, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Californians shopping for insurance policies through the state’s online marketplace can now compare plans based on customer quality ratings as well as cost. Covered California assigned star ratings to the health plans based on member survey responses. The surveys were taken before the insurance marketplace opened, so they only compare plans that had a track […]

How Do Marketplace Plans Differ From Others; Will Cost-Sharing Subsidies Affect My HSA; Who Pays The Penalty For An Adult Child?

By Michelle Andrews March 25, 2014 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s consumer columnist answers questions about how the health law and online exchanges work.

New Customer Service Data Available On California Medical Groups

By Anna Gorman January 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Californians looking for more information about their doctors can now turn to a statewide website that includes new data on 170 physician groups. The website rates medical groups based on patients’ survey responses on access, care and customer service. Patients can compare doctor groups on such criteria as how easy it was to get appointments, […]

Report: Effort To Curb Health Costs Should Be ‘Led By The States’

By Julie Appleby January 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Governors and other state leaders have the leverage to slow rising health costs and should not wait for action by the federal government, a commission chaired by two former governors said in a report Wednesday. State leaders can use their clout as large purchasers of health care as well as regulators to set goals for health […]

How Much Does A New Hip Cost? Even The Surgeon Doesn’t Know

By Jenny Gold January 6, 2014 KFF Health News Original

What will a gallon of milk set you back? How about a new car? You probably have a rough idea. But what about a medical device — the kind that gets implanted during a knee or hip replacement? Chances are you have no clue. And you are not alone: The surgeons who implant those devices probably […]

Obamacare Thrives In San Francisco’s Chinatown

By Sarah Varney February 6, 2014 KFF Health News Original

The immigrant community became self-sufficient by necessity, building its own hospital more than a century ago. Now, that hospital offers a health plan on Covered California that is exceeding its enrollment goals.

Health Insurers Scramble Toward Jan. 1 Coverage Deadlines

By Jay Hancock and Julie Appleby December 20, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Rule changes and deadline shifts have complicated the efforts of health insurance companies to prepare for a wave of new customers and “post-enrollment snafus.”

Californians Continuing To Flock To New Insurance Exchange

By Anna Gorman December 13, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Enrollment in California’s new health insurance marketplace is picking up speed, with more than 156,000 signed up for coverage through last week, officials announced Thursday. Nearly a third of the enrollees – 49,700 – completed their applications during the first week of December. “The momentum is very positive,” Peter Lee, executive director of Covered […]

California Considers Its Options On Canceled Insurance Plans

By Sarah Varney and Anna Gorman November 15, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The insurance commissioner and the health insurance industry lobby disagree over President Obama’s plan.

California’s Small Business Insurance SHOP Opens, A Contrast To Feds

By Anna Gorman December 3, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Just a few days after the federal government delayed online enrollment, California announced better news for small businesses who want to buy health insurance. Businesses with up to 50 employees can begin signing up online for coverage through the state’s new marketplace, officials announced Monday. Last week, the federal department of Health and Human Services said that businesses in 36 […]

Most Small Health Plans Struggle To Thrive In California Insurance Marketplace

By Dan Diamond, California Healthline January 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Unlike their larger counterparts, small health plans are struggling in the state’s health insurance marketplace to attract new members — with two exceptions.

Health Law Inspires Hope But Also Worry Among Those With HIV

By Ankita Rao and Anna Gorman January 7, 2014 KFF Health News Original

People with HIV and AIDS can get private insurance, but advocates say that doesn’t guarantee access to high quality care.

Supreme Uncertainty: What’s Next After The Court Rules

October 17, 2013 Page

In this video series, KFF Health News’s Mary Agnes Carey and Marilyn Werber Serafini talk to public officials and policy experts about the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the health law and its implications for the future of health care. N.Y. Insurance Co. Exec: ‘Life Will Go On,’ Expensively, Without Individual MandateIf the Supreme Court […]

Detailing The Winners: Who Scored The Most Health Exchange Sign-Ups

April 22, 2014 Morning Briefing

In California, it was Anthem Blue Cross, while Kaiser Permanente, Rocky Mountain Health Plans and the Colorado HealthOP appeared to fare well through that state’s online insurance marketplace. Meanwhile, reports also track how the small business exchanges did in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

KFF Health News Staff

May 29, 2014 Page

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, joined KFF Health News in September 2016 after 22 years as a correspondent with The New York Times, where she covered a variety of beats from health care to environment and did a stint in the Beijing bureau. While in China, she covered SARS, bird flu, and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in […]

Hawaiians Still Unable To Shop On State Exchange

By Phil Galewitz October 10, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Hawaii, President Barack Obama’s birthplace, has the only online health insurance marketplace that has not yet launched. Ten days after the Hawaii Health Connector was supposed to allow consumers and small employers to shop and enroll for coverage, officials are using paper applications and referring people to insurers’ websites to check prices. About 100,000 people are uninsured in Hawaii. It is […]

Why Insurers Cancel Policies, And What You Can Do When It Happens

By Julie Appleby October 30, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Many people are receiving cancellation notices as the health law transforms the individual insurance market.

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

By Julie Appleby and Anna Gorman October 21, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Insurers say the old policies fail to meet the law’s requirements, but some consumers complain about being forced to buy more expensive policies.

Colorado Exchange Releases Health Insurance Rates

By Eric Whitney August 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

Colorado released its Obamacare insurance rates on Friday, joining 13 states and the District of Columbia in making rates public. The state earlier made the call to be a clearinghouse exchange, rather than an active purchaser, and so, it has approved all 242 health plans submitted for sale on its marketplace, Connect for Health Colorado. Thirteen carriers will […]

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