Consumers clueless about exchanges

Only 3 percent said they would use the new crop of navigators — but only 31 percent said they thought they would turn to friends, relatives, the Internet, doctors or pharmacists.

About 67 percent said they would go nowhere for PPACA exchange information or aren’t sure where they’ll go.

In other PPACA exchange news:

• Cover Oregon, the PPACA exchange for Oregon, says it will start selling coverage through agents and “community partners” Oct. 1 but won’t have its website up until later in October. But the exchange does plan to start enrollment for both individual and Small Business Health Options Program small-group plans that month.
• If you run a group that’s to make PPACA exchange “certified application counselors” available in Nevada, you can already use a form to apply for reimbursement for certification-related expenses from Nevada Health Link, that state’s PPACA exchange.

See also:

• Blue Cross reaches out over PPACA
• Towers Watson may be federal exchange Web broker
• Covered California starts producer preregistration