Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Affordable Care Act's Marketplaces have seen record signups for 2024. Marketplaces can pursue innovative and consumer-friendly policies that bolster this crucial source of coverage.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With their recent stability, the Affordable Care Act marketplaces are well-positioned for innovation—but there's still room to take what's working nationwide, according to a new report.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Last month, the Biden administration proposed changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace policies and procedures. In a post for Health Affairs Forefront, Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis take a look at the proposals related to market reforms, Marketplace standards, and premium tax credits.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 1, 2023

Amazon Clinic — now available to consumers in all 50 states — launched shortly after the company announced plans to shutter a separate enterprise virtual care offering.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage kicks off November 1 in most states.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The annual Marketplace Open Enrollment Period is just around the corner. Enrolling in health insurance can be a challenge, especially for the millions of Americans with limited English proficiency (LEP).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What You Should Know: Zocdoc, the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for patients to find and book in-person or virtual care across over 250 specialties and more than 18,000 insurance plans, today announced the launch of Zocdoc Practice Solutions.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2023

today announced it significantly upgraded the athenahealth Marketplace with new features and capabilities designed to help customers and partners further extend the value of athenahealth’s solutions. What You Should Know: – athenahealth, Inc.,

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The annual open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage is right around the corner. Continue reading → The post What’s New for 2023 Marketplace Enrollment? CHIR's Emma Walsh-Alker summarizes these and other recent policy changes that consumers may encounter this year.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced the addition of its EASE All-Payer claims management solution to the PointClickCare Marketplace.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s time to sign up for 2024 coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces. This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is spotlighting how the Marketplaces can serve LGBTQI+ individuals, a community that has historically faced discriminatory barriers to health insurance and health care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2023

What You Should Know: – AVIA just announced the launch of AVIA Marketplace , a vendor selection platform available for free. The AVIA Marketplace is the first step in a broader suite of offerings to help digital health companies bring the greatest capabilities to market—strengthening both sides of the ecosystem.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 1, 2024

In November, the Biden administration released the proposed Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters for plan year 2025, an annual rule setting standards for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces and health insurers.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sixteen health systems have put their weight behind Vale Health, a new online marketplace of vetted wellness offerings for consumers. It launched this week with a marketplace designed with and for patients of Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

November 1 marked the first day of the Marketplace Open Enrollment Period in most states. This week, we’re taking a look at who is eligible for Marketplace plans.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2024

Conduce’s Solution: A Marketplace for Personalized Care Conduce offers a unique solution with its multi-specialty value-based care marketplace. Marketplace Availability Conduce’s marketplace is already active in South Carolina and Georgia, with plans for rapid expansion across the Southeast.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act passed last year extended boosted ACA subsidies to make coverage more affordable and helped drive signups, according to the HHS.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 26, 2024

What You Should Know: Trilliant Health , a premier analytics and market research firm in healthcare, has unveiled its entry-level tier of the Provider Directory on Databricks Marketplace. Instant access for health economy stakeholders to analyze any U.S. provider list independently or alongside existing datasets and workflows.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 16, 2022

Proposed 2023 plan year average increases on individual and family plans of 17% for MVP Health Care and 12% for Blue Cross Blue Shield in the state buck the national trend of declining ACA exchange premiums.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

New startup Forum offers a two-sided virtual peer support group marketplace to help individuals find the support they need. The marketplace has a rapidly expanding list of groups that cover topics like grief, loneliness, chronic conditions, substance use recovery and caregiving.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This first blog in a new series on dental coverage in the ACA Marketplaces summarizes the legal framework of dental coverage and potentially forthcoming changes under the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2025.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 19, 2022

Health insurers' preliminary filings with state regulators point to a 10% median bump in rates for enrollees in 2023, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What You Should Know: Sika Health , a leading HSA/FSA payment solution for eCommerce merchants, today announced the launch of Sika Health Marketplace, the go-to shopping destination that makes it easy and hassle-free for consumers to shop eligible products at leading health and wellness brands and retailers with their pre-tax funds.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – Solve.Care , the global healthcare blockchain technology company, has announced the world’s first crypto-enabled marketplace dedicated to healthcare. Crypto-Enabled Marketplace. We are delighted to be the developers and owners of the first crypto-enabled healthcare marketplace in the world.

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JULY 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – Medical Solutions , one of the nation’s largest providers of total workforce solutions serving the healthcare industry acquires Matchwell , a tech-enabled job marketplace that empowers healthcare organizations to access and manage a flexible workforce in the most efficient model in the industry.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 16, 2023

The Affordable Care Act established health insurance Marketplaces to facilitate enrollment in comprehensive and affordable health insurance. Most states rely on the federal government to run their Marketplace, but recently, several states have expressed interest in taking over Marketplace operations.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 15, 2022

The American Rescue Plan Act has led to record-high marketplace enrollment and significant savings for millions of consumers. But the law’s enhanced marketplace subsidies are set to lapse at the end of the year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2021

A big telehealth marketplace. Sesame is a large and fast-growing telehealth marketplace. With just under half of the adult U.S. population uninsured or underinsured, Sesame and NantHealth are working to educate providers on direct-to-patient and virtual care, with the aim of enabling the providers to scale their practices faster.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 17, 2022

What You Should Know: Sesame , the only company proven to lower the price of medical care for American consumers raises $27M in Series B financing to expand its national marketplace of high-quality, ultra-affordable medical care for all Americans, whether they are insured or not. Millions of Americans are Priced out of Accessible Care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 12, 2023

What You Should Know: 4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Elion , a San Francisco-based independent digital health technology marketplace company, today announced it has raised $3.3M The company plans to use the funding to support the continued build-out of Elion’s marketplace product, as well as further it’s content development and go-to-market efforts.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A record number of people have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces. This historic enrollment coincides with a new rule that fixes the “family glitch,” a former policy that blocked over 5 million people from accessing marketplace subsidies.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What You Should Know: Odesso Health, innovators in bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to automate Electronic Medical Records (EMR) workflows, announced that the Company’s Clinical Data Connector (CDC) is now available on the athenahealth Marketplace and the Appian Community AppMarket.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This week, we’re highlighting frequently asked questions from our Navigator Resource Guide concerning the risks of buying coverage outside the ACA's Marketplace. Consumers searching for a 2024 plan online may come across products that do not have to comply with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) consumer protections.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Although the deadline to enroll in a marketplace plan beginning January 1 has passed in most states, Open Enrollment is still ongoing. As consumers look for an affordable health plan, it can be tempting to search for plans online, which may lead people to products sold outside of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 3, 2022

Beginning in 2023, CMS will require QHP provider networks for plans sold on the federal marketplace to meet minimum time-and-distance standards and, beginning in 2024, minimum standards for appointment wait times.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2022

What You Should Know: – Nomad Health , a leading digital marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, today announced the closing of a $105M financing co-led by Adams Street Partners and Icon Ventures. This brings Nomad’s total funding to over $200M since its founding in 2015.

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