The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is developing a "star rating" program for public exchange health insurance exchange plans.
The new quality rating system will apply to qualified health plans with more than 500 enrollees that sell coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act public exchange program.
The QHPs themselves will have to certify that any in-network hospitals with more than 50 beds meet federal patent safety standards.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
