Massachusetts will invest an additional $250 million to help residents pay for premium increases after ACA enhanced subsidies expired at the end of 2025. The investment brings the state’s total commitment to its ConnectorCare program to $600 million, the largest…
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A Florida insurance brokerage executive will serve nearly three years in prison for participating in a $133 million ACA fraud scheme, the Palm Beach Post reported Jan. 8. Dafud Iza, 54, of Florida, previously served as executive vice president at…
About 20% of Nevadans who actively selected a health plan through the state’s marketplace, Nevada Health Link, picked a new public option, Nevada Health Authority Director Stacie Weeks told lawmakers Jan. 6. In 2025, Nevada secured federal approval for its…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blamed a 38% average spike in health insurance premiums for state residents on the Dec. 31 expiration of ACA enhanced premium tax credits. The average monthly increase for a New York couple is $228. Out…
New Mexico’s health insurance marketplace has reached record enrollment, despite the expiration of enhanced federal subsidies at the end of 2025, the Albuquerque Journal reported. More than 80,400 people have enrolled for medical or dental coverage through BeWell, the state’s…
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Health insurance marketplace Access Health CT is extending its enrollment window until Jan. 31 for coverage that starts in February, according to an update on its website. The open enrollment period for qualified health plans and stand-alone dental plans began…
Enhanced ACA premium tax credits expired Dec. 31, with congressional efforts to extend them stalled and no resolution in sight. The enhanced subsidies, introduced under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, increased subsidy amounts and expanded marketplace eligibility to households…
More than 15.6 million people have enrolled in plans on federally run ACA exchanges so far, down from about 16 million at the same point last year, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, said Dec. 23. Dr. Oz attributed the decline…
Neither bill proposing solutions to the impending ACA enhanced subsidy expiration survived a Dec. 11 Senate vote. While Senate Democrats advocated for a three-year ACA tax credit extension, Republicans pitched an alternative focusing on health savings accounts. Both motions failed…
Nearly 5.8 million people have enrolled in ACA marketplace plans for 2026 coverage, outpacing last year’s enrollment figures at the same point in the open enrollment period, according to new data published Dec. 5 by CMS. Americans have until Dec.…