Today's Datapoint

Roughly 800,000 customers were lost by Cigna Corp. after CEO David Cordani assumed his current role in 2009 because the insurer decided certain employers did not share the health plan's vision for value-based care, Cordani told a National Business Group on Health conference on March 4.

Quote of the Day

"A compliance officer's role is to tell senior leaders what they have to hear, not just what they want to hear....Their goal should always be to protect the organization."



— Julie Chicoine, senior assistant general counsel at Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University Medical Center, told AIS's Report on Medicare Compliance.

Change in State Uninsured Rates Based on Medicaid Expansion

According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index:

% Uninsured, 2013

• 16.1% - States with both Medicaid expansion and state exchanges/partnerships
• 18.7% - States with only one or neither

% Uninsured, 2014

• 11.3% - States with both Medicaid expansion and state exchanges/partnerships
• 16.0% - States with only one or neither

Change in uninsured rates 2014/2013

• (-4.8%) States w/Medicaid expansion and state exchanges/partnerships
• (-2.7%) States w/only one or neither

Source: Gallup

According to a recent survey,

77% of employers spent 16% or more of their total health care budgets on pharmacy benefits in 2014, up from 71% in 2013.

Source: "Majority of Employers Spend 16 Percent or More of Health Care Budget on Pharmacy Benefits: Buck Consultants Survey," Buck Consultants at Xerox Press Release, February 25, 2015, http://news.xerox.com/news/5th-Annual-Buck-Consultants-at-Xerox-Prescription-Drug-Benefit-Survey

4 Reasons Both Parties Should Be Sweating Bullets Over King V. Burwell

1.    The biggest political threat is to the president

2.    Republicans might not be the winners

3.    It will be hard for Republicans to unify around a replacement for Obamacare

4.    Republican governors will be under tremendous pressure

Source: NPR

5 States Reaching the Greatest Share of the Potential Market (using HealthCare.gov)

1.    Florida 64%

2.    Maine 60%

3.    Pennsylvania 52%

4.    Delaware 52%

5.    North Carolina 51%

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Ten Things to Know about 2015 Public Exchange Enrollment Numbers

1.    Nearly 11.7 million consumers selected or automatically re-enrolled in coverage through the Marketplace

2.    8.84 million (76%) were in states using the HealthCare.gov platform

3.    2.85 million (24%) were in the 14 states (including DC) using state platforms

4.    87% (nearly 7.7 million individuals) qualified for an average tax credit of $263 per month

5.    55% paid $100 or less per month after tax credits

6.    4.1 million+ consumers under age 35 signed up for Marketplace coverage (35% of all signups)

7.    Almost 3.3 million consumers age 18 - 34 signed up for Marketplace coverage (28% all Signups)

8.    53% of HealthCare.gov signups are new consumers who did not have Marketplace coverage as of Nov. 2014

9.    Of the 4.2 million consumers who re-enrolled, 2.0 million auto re-enrolled and 2.2 million actively re-enrolled

10.  Of the 2.2 million active re-enrollees, 1.2 million switched to a different plan from 2014 (54% of active re-enrollees and 29% of all re-enrollees)

Source: HHS Press Release, March 10, 2015: Nationwide nearly 11.7 million consumers are enrolled in 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace coverage