The insurance exchange in Georgia and other states just got an injection of stability. And that’s good news for people buying individual or family coverage for next year.
The Trump administration announced late Tuesday that it’s restoring the Affordable Care Act payments to insurers that it froze earlier this month. Those risk-adjustment payments were worth about $10.4 billion for 2017.
The payments that were frozen are part of an ACA program designed to help balance the insurance markets when some insurers inevitably received sicker, more costly patients.
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