Dowd to lawmakers: Despite ‘confusion,’ exchange fee not expected to rise from 1.5%
Yourhealthidaho.org, Idaho’s state health insurance exchange, is not planning to raise its fee per health plan from the current 1.5 percent level, executive director Amy Dowd told lawmakers this morning. “There has been some confusion on this issue based on work that my staff engaged in to fulfill some reporting requirements recently,” Dowd told the Idaho Legislature’s Health Care Task Force. “We are required to evaluate a full range of possibilities and what-if scenarios. Some of those projections contemplated a far higher rate. In no way was that evaluation a proposal for the future. In Idaho, we can, and are expected, to run a system more efficiently than the federal government. I understand that the expectation is that we run the exchange at a 1.5 percent fee.”