UnitedHealthcare of Illinois Inc history

By the end of 2015, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs created by the ACA had closed.

As a result, their membership ballooned to 50,000 people by the end of the 2015 open enrollment period.

Quinn had hoped to leverage the partnership model as an interim step toward a state-run marketplace for the 2015 coverage year.

Robyn Gabel had hoped the issue would gain traction in 2015, given that the United States Supreme Court was considering whether premium subsidies could be lawfully provided in states that don’t run their own health insurance exchange.

2016: According to the Illinois Department of Insurance, the average rate increase for the lowest-cost Silver plan in the Illinois exchange was 5.3% for 2016, and the average increase for the lowest-cost Bronze plan was 11.3%.

There were nine carriers offering a total of 290 plans for individuals in the Illinois exchange in 2016 (ten if you count Coventry as two separate carriers, which the Division of Insurance does). Three carriers — HCSC, Land of Lincoln, and Coventry — offered plans state-wide.

The state noted that it did not have the power to force carriers to give transitioning CO-OP members credit for their out-of-pocket costs for the first three quarters of 2016, and no other carriers said they would do so.

BCBS of Illinois has announced that they would exit the small business (SHOP) exchange at the end of 2017, but would continue to offer exchange plans for individuals; Illinois had a total of 738 small businesses enrolled in SHOP plans as of early 2017, covering 3,512 members.

The Trump Administration announced in mid-2017 that they would no longer fund community enrollment assistance programs in 18 cities across the country, including Chicago.

HAMP had 35,032 members in 2018 Health Care Service Corporation, (HCSC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois): increase of 0.9 percent.