{"id":6736,"date":"2017-05-11T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:14:14","slug":"1st-wave-of-insurer-rate-requests-may-signal-higher-premiums-for-2018-aca-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6736","title":{"rendered":"1st wave of insurer rate requests may signal higher premiums for 2018 ACA plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Becker\u2019s Hospital Review<\/span><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Four states recently released proposed premium rate increases for 2018 ACA marketplace plans, suggesting insurers may continue to seek significant hikes \u2014 with some requests surpassing the average 25 percent increase for 2017, according to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/early-proposed-rates-for-aca-health-plans-hint-at-a-jump-in-premiums-for-2018\/2017\/05\/09\/22b8eca4-34d0-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wJr3G3kTH7Z7SoWu2zny1gIXA9UGppBZW8eGn5NDbtWjKeXN\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/1st-wave-of-insurers-request-rate-hikes-signal-higher-premiums-for-2018-aca-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 20px; outline: 0px; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.4; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: auto; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\"><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 Morgan Haefner for Becker\u2019s Hospital Review) Four states recently released proposed premium rate increases for 2018 ACA marketplace plans,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","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=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6737,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}