Risk corridor shortfall seen as significant driver of underwriting losses
Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released its annual report on the commercial health insurance market's financial results, which provides a clear picture of health insurers' financial experience in a given year. The report, based on medical loss ratio data submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and released in the fall of 2016, provides a final accounting of insurers' financial results after "3R" transfer payments have been completed. Today's report details results for 2015, the second full year of implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The report also summarizes estimated effectuated insurance marketplace enrollment through 2016 and corresponding federal expenditures on premium and cost-sharing assistance. As the United States approaches a potential new round of healthcare reform, Milliman's report is a helpful tool in analyzing the effect of current ACA financial assistance components to consumers and the impact on the health insurance industry from the insurance marketplaces and "3R" programs. ... |