Special Enrollment Periods Explained
A Basic Explanation A special enrollment period (SEP) is a time outside of the regular open enrollment period during which an individual can enroll in a health insurance plan, typically
News Recap: Week of January 3, 2023
It's a new year with new industry news to follow! Let's start with some of last week's happenings. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that
What happens to consumers if ARPA subsidies expire?
The enrollment gains made from the expansions of cost-saving subsidies in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) are at risk, as the enhanced subsidies that pushed enrollment to 14.5 million,
The Latest COVID Public Health Emergency (PHE) Extension
Ever since the Public Health Emergency (PHE) was extended for the ninth time – to July 15th – there was growing speculation that the Biden Administration would not extend the
Spring 2022 Medical Debt Survey
In early March 2022, GetInsured conducted a Medical Debt Survey to get a sense of where Americans stood in relation to medical debt two years into the pandemic. While
Consumers In Non-Medicaid Expansion States Could Gain Access to Health Coverage through Exchanges
The Build Back Better Act, in its current state, could allow millions of Americans to access premium-reducing tax credit who currently do not qualify. To understand why this is important, we
Millions More ACA Exchange Enrollees Could Be On the Horizon
President Biden and Congressional Democrats campaigned on improving and building on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the President and Democratic Congressional Leaders did just that through the enactment of the American Rescue
How State-Based Marketplaces Could Help the Medicare Age-In Population
In an earlier blog post, we looked at whether Congress and the Biden Administration will expand Medicare. One way to expand the program is to lower the eligibility age. Should the Medicare eligibility
It Pays to be a State-Based Marketplace: CMS Awards $20M in Grant Money
CMS announced on September 10, 2021, that it would be “awarding $20 million in American Rescue Plan (ARP) grant funding to State-based Marketplaces (SBMs) to increase consumer access to affordable,
Will Congress and the Biden Administration Expand Medicare?
There Are a Number of Ways to “Expand” Medicare Dating all the way back to the 2020 Presidential election, we have heard a lot of talk about “expanding” Medicare. But, what do policymakers mean