The development of private health
insurance exchanges with defined contribution and other related
approaches toward consumer driven purchasing of healthcare has
accelerated rapidly. National benefits consultants have seized the
momentum to create multi-carrier private exchanges, actively courting
payors and employers to join. Many payors, fearing disintermediation by
these multi-carrier exchanges, have abandoned the wait-and-see approach
that we saw a year ago and are now rolling out single-carrier exchanges,
or planning to do so soon. Payors have choices to make: participate in
selected multicarrier exchanges and or offer proprietary, single-carrier
exchanges. |
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