Hub Webinar
- The Hub's June 2016 Webinar: Advocates' Guide to Health Plan Merger Remedies
Hub Webinar
- The Hub's January 2016 Webinar: Plan and Provider Consolidation: Better Coordination or Price Gouging?
Advocate Resource Pages
- Community Health Needs Assessments
- Complex Patients
- Consumer-Centric Healthcare
- Consumer Harm: The Impact of High Prices and Uneven Quality
- Cost Drivers: What Drives Healthcare Spending?
- Free Market in Healthcare: Opportunities and Limitations
- Health Insurance Network Adequacy
- Health Insurance Plan Mergers
- Medical Harm
- Prescription Drug Costs
- Provider Directories
- Rethinking Consumerism in Healthcare
- Research Gaps
- State Accountability for Healthcare
- Surprise Medical Bills
- Value-Based Insurance Design
Resources
Health Plan and Provider Consolidation
General Background
- Hub Research Brief No. 12, Advocates' Guide to Health Insurance Merger Remedies
- Hub Research Brief No. 10, Plan and Provider Consolidation: Better Coordination or Price Gouging?
- Hub glossary of terms related to consolidation.
- Hub Research Brief No. 4, A Primer: How Antitrust Law Affects Competition in the Healthcare Marketplace
- Kaiser Family Foundation tool to view health plan concentration in your state
- Families USA blog, Health Insurance Mergers: Questions Consumers Want Answered
- Health Marketplace Index, Healthcare Cost Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This tool utilizes several metrics, including HHI scores, prices and utilization records to score the economic performance of a number of healthcare markets.
- Community Catalyst: Health Market Consolidation
- Modern Healthcare: Insurance mega-deals aren't winning over large employers
Aetna-Humana, Anthem-Cigna Proposed Mergers
- Coalition to Protect Patient Choice (Resources connected to the coalition's efforts to investigate health insurance mergers.)
- Consumers Union, testimony before U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the consumer need for balanced, healthy competition in the health insurance market.
- Universal Healthcare Foundation of Connecticut - Resources on Anthem-Cigna Merger
- Proposed Health Plan Mergers: State-by-State Summary (January 2016)
- Health Affairs blog, How Might Proposed Payer Mergers Impact State Insurance Markets?
State Resources
California
- Consumers Union, statement to the California Department of Managed Care on the proposed Anthem-Cigna merger (March 9, 2016).
- Consumers Union statement to the California Department of Managed Healthcare on the proposed material modification concerning the acquisition of Humana by Aetna (Jan. 8, 2016)
- Coalition to Protect Patient Choice: Letter to California Department of Managed Care (Jan. 11, 2016)
- More California merger resources from Consumers Union
Delaware
- Consumers Union/public interest group letter to the Delaware Department of Insurance (Letter) (Additional Background) (March 3, 2016)
Florida
- Consumers Union/public interest group letter to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Letter) (Additional Background) (Dec. 16, 2015)
Illinois
- Consumers Union/public interest group letter to the Illinois Department of Insurance Commissioner (Letter) (Additional Background) (Feb. 23, 2016)
Ohio
- Consumers Union/public interest group letter to the Ohio Department of Insurance (Letter) (Additional Background) (Feb. 10, 2016)
Virginia
- Consumers Union/public interest group letter to the Virginia Insurance Commissioner (Letter) (Additional Background) (Jan. 11, 2016)
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