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 Maryland Health Benefit Exchange is on track for the November open enrollment period to begin despite significant changes at the federal level. While President Donald Trump and his administration have cut subsidies to insurance companies, shortened the enrollment period and ...

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Millions of Americans buy their own health insurance but don’t use the marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act — potentially depriving them of tax credits that will make their coverage cheaper. In Maryland, 31,000 individually covered residents may be ...

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Health insurer Aetna Inc. will stop selling individual Obamacare plans next year in 11 of the 15 states where it had been participating in the program, joining other major insurers that have pulled out of the government-run markets in the ...

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Nearly 140 small employers in Maryland have been approved to offer health insurance to their employees through the state's Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, officials said Tuesday.

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The number of private plan sign-ups during the first six weeks of the current open enrollment period has already surpassed last year’s figure.

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Few people are more relieved by the newfound success of Maryland’s revamped health exchange than Dr. Peter Beilenson.

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State officials say only about a quarter of those people who have to renew their health insurance plans have actually done so.

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As of Thursday, 51,796 Marylanders had enrolled in health insurance via the state’s exchange since Nov. 15.

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Since open enrollment on the state health exchange began earlier this month, 25,780 Marylanders have enrolled in health coverage, state officials said Tuesday.

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