Few insurance plans available through Obamacare's exchange system advertise themselves as "narrow network." It's not exactly a strong come-on to most consumers.
But at least 41 percent of the popular silver plans sold via exchange in 2014 did, in fact, have what amounted to a narrow network when measured by how many physicians in the plan area were included in the network.
In what they say is the first time networks have been examined through the lens of individual physicians instead of hospitals, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics concluded that many consumers may have unknowingly chosen a narrow network that did not include their "trusted" clinicians.
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