{"id":18003,"date":"2021-04-13T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:43:17","slug":"data-note-2021-medical-loss-ratio-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Data Note: 2021 Medical Loss Ratio Rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Daniel McDermott and Cynthia Cox for Kaiser Family Foundation published April 12, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) limits the amount of premium income that insurers can keep for administration, marketing, and profits. The ACA requires health insurers to publicly report the portion of their premium dollars spent on health care costs, quality improvement, and other activities in each state they operate in. MLR rebates are based on a 3-year average, meaning that 2021 rebates will be calculated using insurers\u2019 financial data in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Rebates issued in 2021 will go to consumers who were enrolled in rebate-eligible plans in 2020.\u00a0 Continue reading the analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/private-insurance\/issue-brief\/data-note-2021-medical-loss-ratio-rebates\/?utm_campaign=KFF-2021-Health-Reform&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=121016933&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9DEhtKqzH6TVRipC70CBxFJqMGxf-jzZYJn5xBu6rwYvDGhc7nfxV6aDCqVbYcgJ990QLjoz6e1oUzn5ZN2wbsD8epcg&amp;utm_content=121016933&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7499\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Daniel McDermott and Cynthia Cox for Kaiser Family Foundation published April 12, 2021) The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18004,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}