Pa. Moves Toward Independence From HealthCare.gov Platform

February 24

While Nevada is taking stock of its first Affordable Care Act (ACA) open enrollment period as a true state-based exchange (HPW 2/10/20, p. 4), Pennsylvania is gearing up to follow in the silver state’s footsteps and make its own break with HealthCare.gov.

Pennsylvania is one of three states — alongside New Jersey and New Mexico — that are planning an imminent transition from the federal health insurance enrollment platform to their own state-based exchange. Other states are reportedly considering similar moves now that the dust has long settled from some states’ botched exchange rollouts in the early years of the ACA.

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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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