Private health insurance: Markets remained concentrated through 2020, with increases in the individual and small group markets : report to congressional committees
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Markets remained concentrated through 2020, with increases in the individual and small group markets: report to congressional committees
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, November 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Government Regulation Health Insurance Exchanges Insurance, Health -- economics Insurance, Health -- statistics & numerical data Legislation, Medical United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why GAO did this study. Individuals have various options for obtaining private health insurance, including through the individual, small group, and large group markets. A concentrated health insurance market may indicate less issuer competition and could affect consumers’ choice of issuers and the premiums they pay for coverage. PPACA included a provision for GAO to periodically study health insurance market concentration. This report describes changes in the concentration of enrollment among issuers in the overall individual, small group, and large group health insurance markets and in the individual market exchanges. GAO determined market share in each of the three overall markets using enrollment data from 2019 and 2020 that issuers are required to report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). GAO determined market share in the individual market exchanges in 2018, 2019, and 2020 using enrollment data from CMS. For all analyses, GAO used the most recent data available at the time of its review.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (iv, 52 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918574087906676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918574087906676