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Webinar: Assisting Consumers in Plan Comparison and Selection

In this Health Reform: Beyond the Basics webinar presented on November 10, 2015, Dave Chandra, Senior Health Policy Analyst, presents strategies for helping consumers compare and select qualified health plans in the Marketplace. It highlights key things that consumers should consider—including balancing monthly premium costs and deductible amounts, understanding cost-sharing differences, identifying if current providers are in-network or if specific medications are covered, and comparing consumers’ total out-of-pocket expenses for the year—and features a live web-browsing demonstration via Healthcare.gov to explore the plan comparison process using current plan information.

Presentation Slides

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Overview of Marketplace Health Plan Elements

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Overview of Marketplace health plan elements (video section, slides)

Plan display on Healthcare.gov (video section, slides)

  • Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC)

Plan design:

Benefits and other covered services

Prescription drug formulary (video section, slides)

Provider networks (video section, slides)

  • Network types
  • Variations in provider networks
  • Tiered network plans
  • Confusion and inaccuracies

Annual changes to monthly premiums (video section, slides)

 

New Tools on Healthcare.gov

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Out-of-pocket cost calculator (video section, slides)

Provider search tool (video section, slides)

 

Assisting Consumers in Plan Selection: Web-Browsing Demonstration

Please note that this section of the webinar features a live web-browsing demonstration that is not reflected in the static slides. 

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Scenario 1: Single adult (video section, slides)

Scenario 2: Married couple (video section, slides)

Scenario 3: Family (video section, slides)

 

Q&A  

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