Free Webinar: How Can Insurance Exchanges Strategically Approach the Selection and Management of Qualified Health Plans?
Contracting with issuers to offer qualified health plans (QHPs) is one of the most important opportunities that Exchanges have to affect health care reform in their states. Unlike many start-up tasks, certifying, re-certifying, de-certifying and managing the relationship over time with health plans is an ongoing and evolving set of tasks. Therefore, Exchanges should take a strategic approach to these functions. A free webinar, sponsored by the State Network, on Thursday, February 14, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET, will look at the many of the types of decisions that Exchanges should consider in preparing to launch a clean, effective QHP solicitation process; the standards that Exchanges can use to certify QHPs; and what are options for “negotiating” key elements of the issuers’ proposals. More information and online registration is available here.
How is California reforming its health care delivery system and what can other states learn from those efforts? A free webinar, co-sponsored by AcademyHealth and the Center for the Study of Social Policy, on Wednesday, February 13, from 2:00-3:15 p.m. ET, will present efforts in California at state and local levels to enroll newly eligible individuals as well as to reform the delivery system to accommodate this population. Through these discussions experts will deliver an overview of efforts in California and provide implications for other states. More information and online registration is available here.