CMS Posts Reinsurance Funding For Several States; NJ, WI Data Not Out

CMS posted the estimated pass-through funding amounts that four additional state-based reinsurance programs can expect for the 2019 plan year, leaving Wisconsin and New Jersey as the only states for which figures are not yet publicly available. Reinsurance mitigates risk by reimbursing plans for a portion of high-cost claims up to a certain amount. The Affordable Care Act included a temporary reinsurance program that ended after the 2016 plan year, and since then an increasing number of states have created...