New Products on Data Collection and Use in the New Health Insurance Marketplaces

With the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance marketplaces drawing to a close at the end of March 2014, potential applicants and others have expressed concern about the types and amount of information that marketplaces are collecting in order to enroll individuals and families in new Qualified Health Plans.  The vast majority of marketplace enrollments occur online, digitizing this personal information and requiring it to travel via the internet.  These changes have given rise to concerns about what exactly the government (state or federal) is doing with the information that applicants must submit in order to enroll in a plan through a marketplace.

To learn more about the specific information being asked of marketplace applicants and how this information is being used, we invite you to read our Fast Fact and Myth Buster on data collection and use in the health insurance marketplaces by clicking on the links below.

Fast Facts: What Information is a Health Insurance Marketplace Collecting about Potential Enrollees?

 

Myth Buster: Individuals and families that enroll in a qualified health plan through the ACA's new marketplaces will have their personally identifiable information collected and stored in a central database controlled by the federal government.