{"id":21579,"date":"2014-09-29T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21579"},"modified":"2014-09-29T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T21:07:16","slug":"california%e2%80%99s-obamacare-exchange-can%e2%80%99t-match-doctors-to-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21579\/california%e2%80%99s-obamacare-exchange-can%e2%80%99t-match-doctors-to-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s ObamaCare Exchange Can\u2019t Match Doctors to Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you purchase an ObamaCare plan in California, good luck trying to find a directory that matches your insurance policy with a specific doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAltogether, the 10 insurers in Covered California have contracted with an estimated 75% of California\u2019s licensed physicians, or nearly 90% of those considered active in the state,\u201d reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-0928-obamacare-doctors-20140928-story.html#page=1 \" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>. \u201cHowever, many of those doctors are available in just one or two health plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is, if you can find them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no timetable for a state provider directory after the exchange scrapped an initial version that was riddled with errors. Instead, Covered California refers people to insurance company websites that vary in usefulness,\u201d says the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting anger and confusion has spawned almost 300 complaints to state regulators and two consumer lawsuits against some of the biggest insurance companies in California.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors are getting hosed too, according to the report. \u201cInsurers say they can pass along savings by paying doctors less and rewarding that select group with higher patient volume. It\u2019s also hoped those doctors will take on a bigger role coordinating patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To clarify, in return for getting paid less doctors that accept ObamaCare-compliant plans are getting more patients and more exposure to medical malpractice lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder there\u2019s no directory matching providers to plans. The docs want to hide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you purchase an ObamaCare plan in California, good luck trying to find a directory that matches your insurance policy with a specific doctor. \u201cAltogether, the 10 insurers in Covered California have contracted with an estimated 75% of California\u2019s licensed physicians, or nearly 90% of those considered active in the state,\u201d reports the Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,4591,3007,3308,1829,35],"class_list":["post-21579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-covered-california","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21585,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions\/21585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}