Thousands of Marylanders are signing up for health insurance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state’s health exchange Wednesday extended the window to allow more people to enroll. The state’s special enrollment period for the coronavirus will now run through ...

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Marylanders without health insurance have an extra opportunity to purchase it on the state’s individual market as the state offers a special enrollment period amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange announced the extra enrollment period will begin ...

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Beginning Jan. 27, Maryland tax filers will be able to check a box saying whether they have health insurance and, if they do not, whether they would like to receive information about their eligibility for free or reduced coverage. The ...

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Enrollment in individual plans on Maryland’s health insurance market increased slightly for 2020 after premiums fell again. Total enrollments rose to 215,150, up 1 percent from last year. Enrollments on the state’s health exchange rose by 1,637 to 158,500.  The ...

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Signups on Maryland’s health exchange this year are slightly up as the open enrollment period comes to an end this weekend. Enrollment was tracking up about 3% more than last year as the enrollment period has entered one of its ...

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Maryland’s individual health insurance market, which will begin open enrollment next week, stands to gain from a second straight year of premium rate declines. Last year, premiums on the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange fell by about 11%, the first premium ...

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Maryland reversed enrollment declines on its individual health market, returning to levels near where it was for 2017 after the open enrollment period ended Saturday.

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While other states grapple with the consequences of federal actions in the individual health insurance market, the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange’s original decision to set up as a state-based exchange has left it with the resources to succeed, its executive ...

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The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange’s marketing strategy for the upcoming open enrollment period seems simple, considering historic rate decreases approved by regulators last week. “I just think there’s only one message this year, and that’s that prices are down,” state ...

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The board of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange voted Friday on a solution to an issue where the state’s new reinsurance program could cause duplicative payments under the Affordable Care Act’s risk adjustment program. Kaiser Permanente, one of the state’s ...

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