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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 telemedicine?

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Telemedicine is an alternative to face-to-face communication between patients and healthcare providers, using telephone or video. Telemedicine helps to ensure access to health care for people in rural and remote areas, and it also makes care more efficient and convenient for patients.

Telemedicine includes real-time contact between patients and their doctors, in-home electronic monitoring of patients with chronic conditions, and electronic access to specialists who can help a local hospital diagnose a patient or come up with treatment options. (For example, a small rural hospital can use telemedicine to connect with a larger, better equipped/staffed hospital in an urban area when analyzing a patient’s symptoms.)

The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to increase the use of telemedicine, but coverage and utilization still varies considerably from one state to another.

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