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Oregon appears to be purging their old unpaid enrollments, for cleaner totals (along with the dental enrollments, which even I haven't really talked about)...I'm assuming this is through yesterday. Note that the Medicaid number doesn't include an additional 128K enrolled via their "Fast Track" program from earlier:

April 3, 2014 Update: Private coverage and Oregon Health Plan enrollment through Cover Oregon

  • Medical enrollments through Cover Oregon: 200,165
  • Total private medical insurance enrollments through Cover Oregon 1: 58,833                      
  • Oregon Health Plan enrollments through Cover Oregon: 141,332
  • Total private dental insurance enrollments through CoverOregon 1: 12,066                       

Net enrollments 

  • Net private medical:  55,833
  • Net private dental: 11,208

Background: With three months of open enrollment completed, Cover Oregon is expanding the enrollment report beyond what is required by the federal Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight to include net private insurance enrollments and also dental enrollments. 

Hawaii makes a correction by separating out their SHOP enrollees...

Connector Updates for March 31, 2014

  • Total since October 1, 2013:
  • 24,176 Applications completed in the Individual Marketplace
  • 7,596 QHP Enrollments in the Individual Marketplace
  • 1,280 attestation forms filled out
  • 544 Employers applied to SHOP Marketplace
  • 265 QHP Enrollments from the SHOP Marketplace

OK, this is why CoveredCA was holding off on announcing their numbers: Peter Lee had to testify before Congress today anyway:

Enrollment in Covered California private health insurance plans hit 1,221,727 through March 31. In fact, March was the highest single month of enrollment, with more than 416,000 people signing up for a health insurance plan.

...Medi-Cal enrolled approximately 1.9 million people through the end of March, including 1.1 million through the Covered California portal and county offices, approximately 650,000 former Low Income Health Program (LIHP) members who were transitioned to Medi-Cal by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and 180,000 individuals who applied through the state’s Express Lane program.

In addition...

And there we have it: Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post reports that BCBSA (the family of Blue Cross companies, as well as Anthem, Regeant, etc) confirms 1.7 million ACA-compliant QHPs sold OFF-exchangenationally from October 1st through March 1st (that's right, the rest of March isn't included; for comparison, March made up 40%of the exchange QHP total for the open enrollment period):

Newsy: BlueCrossBlueShield companies sold 1.7 million ACA-compliant policies OFF-exchange between 10/1-3/1. #obamacare

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 3, 2014

@charles_gaba @Cripipper no link. I had been asking for the data and I got it the old fashioned way--a phone call.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 3, 2014

Since I'm shifting the "Paid/Unpaid" tally to a simplified "93% Paid or Will Pay Within a Reasonable Time" model, I'm no longer distinguishing the paid/unpaid factor for states which do so (although I am still listing them when released by the states):

Enrollment data (Oct. 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014)

Total HealthSource RI enrollments (including those who have not yet paid): 27,961

Paid enrollments: 21,097

Medicaid enrollments (per EOHHS): 64,590

Small employer applications initiated: 1,319

Small employer enrollment: 175 (based on their submitted census, these employers represent 700 covered employees and 1,110 covered lives)

Small employers who enrolled in Full Employee Choice: 103

  • Thru 4/02: QHPs: 63,002
  • Thru 4/02: Medicaid: 232,075 (295,077 - 63,002, includes one-time PAC transfers)

O’Malley points out that despite the problems, Maryland exceeded its overall enrollment goal of 260,000. As of Tuesday night, that number had hit 295,077. It includes people who have enrolled in private plans (which has dramatically lagged expectations) and Medicaid (which has exceeded expectations).

...Sharfstein said in late February that a more accurate projection is 75,000 to 100,000 private enrollees.

As of Tuesday evening, there were 63,002, with hundreds or thousands more expected to finish their applications in coming weeks.

As a follow-up to my follow-up last night, HuffPo healthcare reporter Jeffrey Young tweets:

About 3/4 of the 28K @HealthSourceRI enrollees had paid a premium as of 3/31. People who signed up after 3/23 have until 4/23 to pay.

— Jeffrey Young (@JeffYoung) April 3, 2014

@asymmetricinfo And the paid rate through 3/8 was 83%, including people whose bills were due later.

— Jeffrey Young (@JeffYoung) April 3, 2014

Interim CEO of @MNsure, Scott Leitz, to tell U.S. House subcommittee that 95% of its 47,000 enrollees have paid, and the rate will rise.

— Jeffrey Young (@JeffYoung) April 3, 2014

OK, looks like I completely misunderstood the Vermont figures from a few days ago; half of them were supposed to go on the Medicaid side after all. From a source at the Vermont Health Connector:

In the meantime, I can provide the enrollment figures: 48,150 are fully enrolled in a plan through Vermont Health Connect; 25,930 of those enrolled in Medicaid or Dr. Dynasaur, our CHIP program.

Doesn't impact the overall national total, but it does change the dynamic for Vermont to something...rational (prior to this it looked like they had hit a whopping 585% of their year 1 target!

This means 22,220 QHPs and 25,930 Medicaid.

The Hawaii Health Connector has enrolled 7,861 individuals as of the March 31 deadline, with another 24,176 who completed applications for coverage through the state-run online health insurance exchange. 

...It is important to note there are only about 50,000 uninsured people in Hawaii who are not deemed Medicaid eligible, which makes Hawaii’s market small compared to other states.

...Kayla Rosenfeld, spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, told PBN on Wednesday that since Oct. 1 — when the department launched its new online eligibility system KOLEA— net Medicaid enrollment in Hawaii has increased by 46,605, which is close to the expected increase of 48,000.

Van Pelt highlights the more than 300,000 "enrolled in health care coverage since October thanks to Cover Oregon ... and the Oregon Health Authority."

That figure includes:

  • 55,000 people enrolled in private plans using the backup manual processing system set up to cope with the exchange's technology issues.
  • more than 120,000 people enrolled into Oregon Health Plan after the exchange forwarded their information to the state for processing, a workaround for the exchange's broken Medicaid interface.
  • 125,000 people enrolled directly into the Oregon Health Plan using a streamlined system set up to bypass Cover Oregon.

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