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Market Share of Health Plans

<p>PPO&nbsp;plans enroll three-in five covered workers in 2006,&nbsp;followed by HMO plans. POS plans, and then HDHP/SOS and conventional plans.</p><p>With the highest enrollment, PPO plans cover 60% of covered workers. HMO plans cover 20% of covered workers, POS plans cover 13% of covered workers, and HDHP/SOs and conventional plans cover 4% and 3% of covered workers, respectively.</p><p>Plan enrollment patterns differ across regions.</p><p>Lower percentages of covered workers are enrolled in HMO plans in the Midwest and in the South, 16% and 17% respectively. In contrast, HMO enrollment is significantly higher (29%) in the West than in all other regions. A higher percentage of covered workers are enrolled in PPO plans in the Midwest (66%), and fewer are enrolled in the West (51%). For POS plans, enrollment is lowest in the Midwest at 10%.</p><p>Finally, covered workers are less likely to be enrolled in an HDHP/SO in the Northeast (2%) and more likely to be enrolled in an HDHP/SO in the Midwest (6%)</p><p>The Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust 2006 Annual Survey</p><p>A recent study found:</p> 10 application/xml false Health insurance health plans Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jimt 216.58.130.130 false true false false true 147688 blog blogsite/StaffScapes/web