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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 managed care?

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A medical delivery system that attempts to manage the quality and cost of medical services that individuals receive. Most managed care systems utilize an HMO, EPO, PPO, or POS network design, limiting to varying degrees the number of providers from which a patient can choose, whether the patient has to use a primary care physician, and whether out-of-network care is covered under the plan. Some managed care plans attempt to improve health quality, by emphasizing the prevention of disease.

Indemnity plans were popular before the advent of modern managed care plans, but they have been largely replaced by managed care plans over the last few decades, and the vast majority of privately insured Americans are in some form of managed care plan.

Even in the Medicaid and Medicare systems, managed care is playing an increasingly large role: More than two-thirds of the people enrolled in Medicaid were covered under private Medicaid managed care plans as of 2017. And 34 percent of Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans in 2019 — a percentage that has been steadily growing over the past decade.

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