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Three New State-Based Marketplaces Are Up and Running
By Rachel Swindle We’re a week into Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace open enrollment, and it looks like the three newest marketplaces, Kentucky, Maine, and New Mexico, are off to a solid start. These three states successfully transitioned this year from the federal marketplace platform, HealthCare.gov, to a full state-based marketplace (SBM). They join fourteen other states and the District […]
New and Improved Navigator Resource Guide Answers Common Enrollment Questions, Spotlights Innovative Outreach for Communities of Focus
November 1 marked the start of the Affordable Care Act’s eighth open enrollment season in most states. To help marketplace Navigators and others assisting consumers with marketplace eligibility and enrollment, we at CHIR have updated and improved our Navigator Resource Guide. The Guide is a practical, hands-on resource with over 300 frequently asked questions (FAQs) on topics such as marketplace eligibility, premium and […]
Misleading Marketing of Non-ACA Health Plans Continued During COVID-19 Special Enrollment Period
By Dania Palanker and JoAnn Volk Millions of Americans are eligible for health insurance plans with low or no premiums and significantly reduced cost-sharing this coming open enrollment period thanks to enhanced marketplace subsidies under the American Rescue Plan (ARP). But misleading marketing practices may direct some consumers to alternative plans that lack the Affordable Care […]
To Avoid Big Coverage Losses, Marketplaces Need to Prepare for the End of the Public Health Emergency
By Sabrina Corlette and Megan Houston The COVID-19 pandemic will end, and with it the federal government is expected to lift the “Public Health Emergency” (PHE) first declared on January 31, 2020 and extended seven times since then. Allowing the PHE to expire is more than the symbolic end of the pandemic; it signals the termination of numerous policies […]
COVID “Long Haulers” Can Carry Additional Burden of Getting Insurers to Cover Care
By Karen Davenport As Americans return, retreat, and return again to schools, workplaces, and other locations emblematic of pre-pandemic times, life is anything but normal for millions of people experiencing the long-term after-effects of COVID-19. Post-viral syndromes, which develop when a reaction to a virus fails to resolve following initial infection, followed the 1918 flu pandemic, SARS, and other viral […]