Health Payer Intelligence interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about strategies that could fix the Affordable Care Act without repeal.
“It could be better if there was broader enrollment and that is primarily what insurers want to see,” Ario said. “The second challenge is to make sure that as many people as possible are continuously enrolled in the program, so that payers do not have people coming in and out of the program. These are shared goals between insurers and the Obama administration.”
“One obvious solution is something that CMS has attempted to do within the context of the existing legislation: really tighten up those special enrollment periods so that payers aren’t getting a very negative risk pool,” Ario explained.