October 16, 2014: During the first open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government and states operating state-based exchanges conducted various types of reporting on key indicators of interest to policymakers and the public. There was variation in the definitions employed by different states, and this is expected to continue into the future. As the second open enrollment period nears, several states have expressed interest in better understanding how their counterparts are defining and using key terms in public reporting.
With this in mind, SHADAC and the State Health Exchange Leadership Network (Network) collaborated to create a compendium of the terms and definitions most commonly used in the first open enrollment period. We hope that this resource will be useful to states both for planning future reporting and for facilitating cross-state understanding and comparison.
This work is supported by the State Health Reform Assistance Network (State Network), the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
View "Terms and Definitions Used by States Reporting on Affordable Care Act (ACA) Enrollment."