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Interactive portion of my blog post about healthcare.gov individual and small business insurance exchange premiums by county at http://socialhealthinsights.com/2013/10/healthcare-gov-open-data/
To start this process, here is a list of the 17 other health insurance exchanges:
* California – Covered California (http://www.coveredca.com)
- PDF of the four plan levels (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze): https://www.coveredca.com/PDFs/English/CoveredCA-HealthPlanBenefitsComparisonChart.pdf
- PDF of pricing by region: https://www.coveredca.com/PDFs/English/booklets/CC-health-plans-booklet-rev2.pdf
- Finding: there are 19 different pricing regions which are split up by counties. Each pricing region lists number of subsidy-eligible individuals in that area and also which insurance providers are providing plans in the region
- Finding: there are 12 different insurance plan providers
* Colorado – Connect for Health Colorado (http://www.connectforhealthco.com)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* Connecticut – Access Health CT (http://www.accesshealthct.com/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* District of Columbia – DC Health Link (http://www.dchealthlink.com/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* Hawaii – Hawaii Health Connector (http://www.hawaiihealthconnector.com)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
- I was able to use web-chat and they said what I was looking for was not available
- "Kim B > [In the] coming weeks, you'll be able to shop and compare so you can select the plan that meets your financial and health needs."
- I was able to learn which five payers will be participating: Best Life Dental, Guardian Dental, Hawaii Dental Service, HMSA, and Kaiser Permanente
* Idaho – Your Health Idaho (http://www.yourhealthidaho.org/)
- Data is at https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/Idaho-QHP-Individual-Market-Medical-Landscape/e8ws-ngn9
- "Country" column should read "County"
- To be consistent with other data files, "Premium Adult Individual Age 50 *" column should be "Premium Adult Individual Age 50*"
* Kentucky – Kynect KY (http://kyenroll.ky.gov/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* Maryland – Marlyand Health Connection (http://www.marylandhealthconnection.gov/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* Massachusetts – Health Connector
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* Minnesota – MNsure (http://www.mnsure.org)
- Excel spreadsheets includes county-level data on metal levels, plan name, and insurer but not prices:
- for individuals: http://www.mnsure.org/images/Individual-ServiceAreas-ProviderLook-up.xls
- for SHOP: http://www.mnsure.org/www.mnsure.org/images/SHOP-ServiceArea-ProviderLook-up.xls
* Nevada – Nevada Health Link (http://www.nevadahealthlink.com/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
* New Mexico – Be Well NM (http://bewellnm.com/)
- Data is available at https://data.healthcare.gov/dataset/New-Mexico-QHP-Individual-Market-Medical-Landscape/mq97-jxwi
- To be consistent with other data files, "Premium Adult Individual Age 50 *" column should be "Premium Adult Individual Age 50*"
- To be consistent with other data files, "Premium Couple *" column should be "Premium Couple*"
* New York – NY State of Health (http://www.healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
- Live chat was helpful and directed me to http://www.healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/resource/covered-benefits-and-out-pocket-costs-standard-health-plans which has a calculator which has a macro that we might be able to look at the code for and get the needed data
- PDF of each county and who the insurers are for individual and SHOP plans: http://www.healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Certified%20Plans%20by%20Counties%20and%20Boroughs%2C%209-4-13.pdf
* Oregon – Cover Oregon (http://www.coveroregon.com/)
* Rhode Island – Health Source RI (http://www.healthsourceri.com/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
- Web chat did confirm that rates are the same across the state (nothing specific to each county)
* Vermont – Health Connect (http://healthconnect.vermont.gov)
- Website (http://info.healthconnect.vermont.gov/healthplans) seems to show 2 insurance providers for each metal level and PDF (http://info.healthconnect.vermont.gov/sites/hcexchange/files/Plan%20Designs%20with%20Final%20Rates_updated_10%201%2013%20%282%29.pdf) has specific plans and premiums.
- Calculator at http://www.healthsourceri.com/news-events/calculate-your-savings/ might have data we want
* Washington – WA Health Plan Finder (http://www.wahealthplanfinder.org/)
- I couldn't seem to browse plans without putting in location/age/etc information
- PDF shows there are 5 rating areas and which payers are servicing each area along with the premiums for each plan for each area
- http://www.wahbexchange.org/files/6413/8022/9697/Health_Insurance_Companies_and_Plan_Rates_2014_9.26.13.pdf
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marks commented Oct 3, 2013

(All data for the remaining 34 states can be found at http://data.healthcare.gov/ which is linked to from http://socialhealthinsights.com/2013/10/healthcare-gov-open-data/)

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marks commented Oct 25, 2013

Thank you to Brian of Intercarve.net for pointing me toward the ID & NM data sets on http://data.healthcare.gov. I do wish all the states were in one data set though!

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