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What are the deadlines for the ACA’s open enrollment period?
A list of the open enrollment deadlines for enrollment in 2023 ACA-compliant health insurance in every state. Open enrollment ended on January 15, 2023 in most states.

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Applying for ACA Coverage?
Understanding how small differences in projected income can have a large impact on your health plan costs can be key to obtaining affordable coverage.

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What is a formulary?

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A formulary is a list of all the drugs covered by a health insurance plan. Health plans have different formularies, which means that a particular drug might be covered by one plan in your area, but not by another.
However, the ACA imposed some minimum standards on all new individual and small-group plans in an effort to ensure that their formularies are robust and non-discriminatory:
  • The formularies must include at least one drug in every United States Pharmacopeia (USP) category and class, OR the same number of drugs in each USP category and class as the state’s benchmark plan.
  • And starting in 2017, the formulary creation must also be guided by the recommendations of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee.
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