Our New Exhange Chief

[Yagents]

Anyone know whether CT is a broker friendly exchange?

New Head of Healthcare.gov Is Connecticut

Feds tap Connecticut Obamacare chief to run HealthCare.gov

 

[FLM2]

He seems competent, was the head of marketing for the Mass exchange for 5 years, then took over the CT exchange.

The article says 2/3 of the CT enrollments On Exchange were Medicaid so there isn't much to glean from that.

I would think that brokers aren't a big part of any decision making process right now relating to the Fed Exchange, they have so many other problems and issues they will just leave it to the insurance companies to decide on compensation within the MLR requirements.

I am expecting many changes in compensation for 2015, I would hope companies like Assurant, Aetna, Humana, Cigna and UHC move to a flat rate, whether PMPM or % of premium, similar to the Medicare structure-it makes little to no sense for an insurer to pay higher FYC when it is so easy to move clients each year when the rates change and I would much rather have a reasonable flat rate so I can just focus on building my book each OEP without having to deal with very low renewal commissions on my existing book.