What’s New for the 2025 Plan Year Open Enrollment
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Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Wrapping Up Open Enrollment
Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces is coming to a close. In most states, J...
August Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
As summer was winding down, CHIR was reading up on the latest health policy research. In August, we ...
December Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
Happy New Year! The holiday season may be over, but health policy researchers continue to bestow gif...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Comparing Plans
Open Enrollment is drawing to a close; in most states, consumers only have until January 15 to sign ...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Coverage of Reproductive Health Care
In most states, it’s the last week to sign up for marketplace plan that begins January 1. The Affo...
New and Improved Navigator Resource Guide Answers Common Enrollment Questions and Reflects Policy Changes for 2023
The tenth open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace is in full swing. With ...
State-Based Marketplace Outreach Strategies for Boosting Health Plan Enrollment of the Uninsured
The tenth annual open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces is upon us. In ...
What’s New for 2023 Marketplace Enrollment?
The annual open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage is right around the corner, running from ...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Understanding Common Consumer Notices When Applying for Marketplace Coverage
Happy New Year! In most states, consumers have until January 15 to sign up for marketplace coverage ...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: What Does My Marketplace Plan Cover?
Enrolling in coverage on the marketplace requires comparing different health plans and decide which ...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: What Are the Risks of Buying Off-Marketplace?
Open Enrollment is in full swing, but consumers should beware of “junk plans” when shopping for ...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Who is Eligible for Marketplace Coverage?
Open Enrollment is underway, and our newly updated Navigator Resource Guide can help Navigators and ...
Three New State-Based Marketplaces are Up and Running
We’re a week into Affordable Care Act marketplace open enrollment, and it looks like the three new...
New and Improved Navigator Resource Guide Answers Common Enrollment Questions, Spotlights Innovative Outreach for Communities of Focus
Just in time for Open Enrollment, CHIR updated and improved the Navigator Resource Guide, a practica...
What’s New for 2022 Marketplace Enrollment?
Open Enrollment is just around the corner. There are new policies for the marketplace in 2022, inclu...
Navigator Guide FAQs Of The Week: Who is Eligible for Financial Assistance?
President Biden has recently signed an executive order to re-open the federal marketplace for a COVI...
January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
As the snow continues to fall, the CHIR team has cozied up indoors with new health policy research. ...
Health Insurance Companies Spent Millions to Defeat the Affordable Care Act. Now They’re Embracing Policies to Expand It.
Health insurers spent millions to defeat the ACA in 2010. Ten years later, major insurers are joinin...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: What to Expect When Expecting Health Insurance
Open Enrollment has ended in most states, and many consumers have signed up for a health insurance...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Coverage Requirements
Open Enrollment in most states ends next week, on December 15. As consumers continue to weigh their ...
November Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
As the autumn leaves change and the weather gets colder, we at CHIR are thankful for new health poli...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Who Is Eligible To Purchase Coverage Through the Marketplace?
November 1 marked the first day of open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. To help ...
What’s New for 2021 Marketplace Enrollment?
On November 1, the eighth open enrollment period begins for marketplace coverage under the Affordabl...
U.S. House Investigation Offers New Evidence on the Dangers of Short-Term Plans
On June 25, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released the results of a year-long investiga...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Can I Get Help Paying for Coverage and Care?
Open Enrollment is in full swing in all 50 states and Washington, DC. As consumers consider their co...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Am I Required to Get Coverage?
Open Enrollment for marketplace coverage under the Affordable Care Act begins on November 1. To help...
State Insurance Department Consumer Alerts on Short-Term Plans Come Up Short
Open Enrollment for 2019 has ended in most states, but consumers are sure to be bombarded with sales...
Navigator Guide FAQ of the Week: Can Insurers Ask About Your Health History?
With just one month left in the open enrollment period for most of the Affordable Care Act’s marke...
What’s New for 2019 Marketplace Enrollment? Get Ready for Updated, Improved Navigator Resource Guide
On November 1, the sixth open enrollment period begins for marketplace coverage under the Affordable...
Cities File Suit Against the Administration for Deliberately Failing to Enforce the ACA
On August 2, a coalition of cities filed a federal lawsuit against President Trump and the Departmen...
Translating Coverage into Care: Answers to Common Post-Enrollment Questions
Open enrollment has ended, and almost 12 million individuals signed up for coverage through the stat...
Affordable Care Act Navigators: Unexpected Success During 2018 Enrollment Season Shouldn’t Obscure Challenges Ahead
Heading into open enrollment for 2018 marketplace coverage, experts predicted far fewer people would...
Marketplace Plan Discontinued? Options after Open Enrollment
Blink and you may have missed it - open enrollment for HealthCare.gov was much shorter this year and...
Enrolling in Health Insurance is Complicated. That’s Where Navigators Can Help.
With the close of Open Enrollment for federally run marketplaces last week, preliminary reports sugg...
The Open Enrollment Clock is Ticking: Drop (what you’re doing), Shop, and Enroll
Open enrollment for 2018 Affordable Care Act coverage ends on December 15th. While in the midst of t...
Shopping Tips for 2018 Open Enrollment
What's a marketplace consumer to think in this crazy-mixed up year for the Affordable Care Act? Fede...
Insurers, State Regulators Avoid Bare Counties in 2018, but Seek Long-Term Solutions
As we near the end of the second week of a so-far successful Open Enrollment, uncertainty over the f...
State-Based Marketplaces Push Ahead, Despite Federal Resistance
Open enrollment for 2018 started last week on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketpla...
Got Questions on Private Health Insurance? Get the New and Improved Navigator Resource Guide
Marketplace enrollment is upon us. November 1 marks the start to the fifth open enrollment season. T...
In the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster and Have Questions about your Health Insurance Coverage? CHIR Experts Answer Some Frequently Asked Questions
In the wake of devastating natural disasters, consumers living in hurricane or wildfire affected ar...
ACA “Bare Counties”: Policy Options to Ensure Access Must Address Longer-Term Stability and Competition
September 27th marks the day most insurers have to formally decide whether they'll stay in the Affo...
The Next Round of Obamacare Regulations are Coming Soon: What Consumer Advocates Want to See
With the annual rule on marketplace operations and health plans expected this fall, we take a look a...
Lots of Changes for 2018 Marketplace Enrollment Mean Confusion for Consumers
Open enrollment will be here sooner than we know it. But this year's open enrollment, will be quite ...
2017 Federal and State Marketplace Trends Show Value of Outreach
The fourth open enrollment period ended in early 2017, with dwindling momentum behind enrollment eff...
Proposed Trump Administration Rule Shortens Open Enrollment: Policy Goals, Potential Impact, and State Options
In February, the Trump administration proposed a number of rules that they hope will stabilize the i...
Twelve Days of Coverage
Despite the gloom and doom surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when we look back at what the ...
The Final Countdown for 2017 Coverage Underway in the Shadows of Affordable Care Act Repeal
Extended to December 19, 2016, consumers have four more days to enroll in an Affordable Care Act mar...
Consumer Shopping on Healthcare.gov During Open Enrollment 4
Choosing a health plan is like putting a puzzle together, you need help putting all the pieces toget...
Simple Choice Plans Debut on Healthcare.Gov
Simple Choice plans, standardized benefit designs with fixed cost-sharing amounts and pre-deductible...
Reaching the Uninsured: Outreach Strategy for Open Enrollment 4
Healthcare.gov will be taking lessons learned from the past three open enrollments, as well as its o...
What to Expect When You’re Enrolling: A Preview of Open Enrollment Season 4
Since the beginning of open enrollment season three years ago, the administration has continually ma...
Wisconsin’s Objection to Automatic Re-enrollment of Enrollees in Federally Facilitated Marketplaces
The administration recently issued a proposal to smooth renewals for consumers affected by insurance...
Open Enrollment IV (OE4) is Just around the Corner: Things to Watch
While it seems like we just finished open enrollment, the next round for 2017 coverage is right arou...
Enroll Before Jan. 15 for Feb. 1 Coverage and Other Open Enrollment Reminders
With open enrollment set to close in two week, enroll now before or on January 15 to get coverage by...
Shop to Renew During Open Enrollment
While many consumers with marketplace coverage will be eligible for automatic renewal, there are man...
Open Enrollment Begins, Kinks in the Cost Calculator Tool on Healthcare.gov and Other OE News
Open Enrollment 3 (OE3) is now underway and by all accounts, things are going smoothly. There are a ...
How will Premium Rate Changes Affect Consumers’ Renewals into Marketplace Coverage? Lessons Learned from 2015’s Enrollment Season
As states finalize premium rates for marketplace plans by August 25, we'll know the extent of change...
Critiquing the Performance as the Curtain Closes on OE2
The second open enrollment period (often called OE2) under the Affordable Care Act has come to its f...
Raising the Curtain on Open Enrollment, Round Two
The second open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces, or OE2, is mere days away. ...
New Tools to Help Consumers Compare Health Plans
One of the most difficult elements of enrolling in the new health insurance Marketplaces is plan sel...
Beware a Rush to Judgment Based on Early Enrollment Numbers
The Obama Administration will soon release the first month enrollment figures for the new health ins...