Covered California Releases Consolidated List Of Essential Community Providers

On June 26, 2014, Covered California, the state’s Health Insurance Marketplace, released a consolidated list of all essential community providers (ECP) to guarantee that health plans participating in the Marketplace have a list of ECPs to contract with for the 2015 plan year. The list contains contact information for 227 hospitals and more than 2,000 community clinics and county-operated health care centers. Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) sold through the federal or state-run Health Insurance Marketplaces are required to include ECPs in their contracted provider organization networks. Previously, Covered California maintained multiple lists of ECP by type . . .