The Council of the District of Columbia has given the district'slocally run health benefits exchange permission to use awide-ranging assessment to fund its operations in 2015.
The D.C. council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve anexchange funding resolution. The resolution calls for managers ofthe DC Health Link exchange to move ahead with efforts to impose a1 percent assessment on all "health insurance carriers" in thedistrct.
Only four carriers are selling major medical coverage throughthe exchange this year.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
