Four payers — Harbor Health Plan, UnitedHealthcare, Priority Health Insurance preferred provider organization and Alliance Health and Life Insurance PPO — will all exit Michigan’s 2017 Affordable Care Act marketplace. Approximately 10,000 consumers will be affected.
All counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan will house at least three ACA marketplace insurers, with the state’s most populous county — Wayne — housing nine. All counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan will have two payers, save for Schoolcraft County, which will have a single payer.
The nine payers offering individual health plans on Michigan’s ACA exchange were approved for the following premium increases.
- Blue Care Network of Michigan (14.8 percent)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (18.7 percent)
- Health Alliance Plan (16.8 percent)
- Humana Medical Plan of Michigan (39.2 percent)
- McLaren Health Plan (12.2 percent)
- Meridian Health Plan of Michigan (9.3 percent)
- Molina Healthcare of Michigan (3.2 percent)
- Physicians Health Plan (6.7 percent)
- Priority Health (13.9 percent)
The DOI said small group premiums are set to rise an average 2.5 percent.
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