State-run and partnership exchanges spent far more on outreach and enrollment efforts than the federal exchanges, according to analysis.
Researchers from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics called the spending differences "striking" when analyzing the exchanges in a new report out Wednesday. State-run exchanges, on average, spent $17.15 per uninsured person, about three times more than the $5.42 spent by federal exchanges, to get the word out about signing up for coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The highest spending, however, was among partnership states — Delaware, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Illinois and West Virginia — which invested an average of $31.53 in consumer assistance per uninsured resident.
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