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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation [ASPE], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]
Mar. 17, 2024
19 pages. "[F]rom 2015 to 2022, Marketplace enrollees in HealthCare.gov states selected silver plans with cost sharing reductions as their most common Marketplace plan selection, but the number of enrollees selecting bronze plans increased the most compared to plan selections in other metal levels."
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Katie Keith in Health Affairs Forefront
Oct. 18, 2021
"[CMS] announced new changes to HealthCare.gov ahead of the 2022 open enrollment period. Federal officials also issued guidance on how to evaluate EDGE data submissions for 2021, requested comment on an information collection request regarding the ACA's contraceptive mandate, and posted new training resources to evaluate plan and insurer compliance with federal mental health parity standards."
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U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO]
Aug. 10, 2021
"GAO was asked to obtain insights on the marketing and sales practices of sales representatives specifically listed on healthcare.gov. In this report, GAO describes the results of covert tests it conducted involving selected sales representatives listed on healthcare.gov when contacted by GAO undercover investigators posing as individuals needing to purchase health insurance to cover pre-existing conditions." [GAO-21-568R, Aug 10, 2021]
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Katie Keith in Health Affairs Forefront
Oct. 28, 2019
"[CMS] announced that consumers could preview new plans and prices at HealthCare.gov and CuidadodeSalud.gov. This 'window shopping' allows consumers to consider their plan options without logging in, creating an account, or completing an official application. CMS also summarized operational and other changes to HealthCare.gov for the 2020 open enrollment period."
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]
Oct. 22, 2019
"[Today, CMS] announced that the average premium for the second lowest cost silver plan on HealthCare.gov for a 27 year-old will drop by 4 percent for the 2020 coverage year. Additionally, 20 more issuers will participate in states that use the Federal Health Insurance Exchange platform in 2020 bringing the total to 175 issuers compared to 132 in 2018[.]" [Also available: 2020 Health Insurance Exchange Premium Landscape Issue Brief; 2020 Plan Landscape Data; and 2020 Health Insurance Exchange Public Use Files.]
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]
Oct. 28, 2018
"Streamlined application visual refresh ... Find local help enhancements ... Improved plan information ... Consumer tools and support: Window shopping ... Consumer call center ... Help on demand ... Financial assistance ... Quality Rating System (QRS) Star Ratings Pilot ... Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) ... Re-enrollment process ... HealthCare.gov scheduled maintenance windows."
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Oct. 26, 2017
"Each open enrollment period, people receiving advance premium tax credits (APTC) to help them pay for health coverage have to renew their eligibility. [These] questions and answers provide information about how the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) will renew eligibility for 2018 APTC and will briefly explain how Healthcare.gov will assign people to health plans if they don't come back to the marketplace to select a plan."
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS], U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]
June 11, 2017
Unnumbered document, June 9, 2017. "For plan year 2018, [CMS] intends to continue the network breadth pilot for reporting information on the relative size of provider networks that will display in a limited number of states on HealthCare.gov.... The results of the pilot will determine whether CMS expands the pilot to more States for the 2018 plan year."
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Society for Human Resource Management [SHRM]
May 17, 2017
"Under the CMS plan, not yet released as a proposed rule, employers would no longer be able to enroll in SHOP plans through the federally run SHOP exchanges available in 33 states through the HealthCare.gov portal. Employers could still use the federal portal to check if they qualify for the small business tax credit."
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Winstead PC
Apr. 19, 2017
"[T]hese regulations are designed to stabilize the individual insurance market and limit special enrollment opportunities on the federal marketplace through HealthCare.gov and limit the annual enrollment period ... [W]hen access to other coverage is limited or more restricted, then employers may find an increase in requests for enrollment in their group health plan coverage."
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