eHealth Signs Proxy Direct Enrollment Agreement With CMS to Enroll Customers Into Qualified Health Plans Using Advanced Premium Tax Credits Without Leaving eHealth.com for Open Enrollment for 2018 Coverage
The DE Proxy Agreement allows eHealth to utilize a new qualified health plan (“QHP”) enrollment process through the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, (FFM or Healthcare.gov) that makes it possible for eHealth to enroll customers into QHPs, and apply for advanced payment of premium tax credits without leaving eHealth.com during the open enrollment period for 2018 coverage.
“We want to commend CMS for the way they’ve engaged with the private
sector to aid the enrollment into qualified health plans,” said eHealth
CEO
“The Trump administration should be commended for the way its department
of
For additional details on the DE Proxy Agreement, please see eHealth’s
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are forward-looking
statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. These include statements regarding eHealth’s ability to
enroll customers into QHPs and apply for advanced payment of premium tax
credits through the FFM without leaving eHealth’s website during the
open enrollment period for 2018 coverage, and the potential that the new
QHP enrollment process will increase access to coverage for millions of
low-income consumers, help CMS achieve its goal of expanding access to
quality and affordable health coverage and boost enrollment in
ACA-compliant health coverage. These forward-looking statements are
inherently subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including
risks associated with: our ability to enroll individuals in qualified
health plans through the FFM without leaving our website; our ability to
maintain the DE Proxy Agreement and other agreements with the CMS which
need to be renewed every year; our ability to satisfy the conditions and
requirements contained in the DE Proxy Agreement and applicable laws,
regulations and regulatory guidance; our ability to maintain a compliant
web platform incorporating the requirements of the DE Proxy Agreement,
any other relevant agreements with CMS, and applicable laws, regulations
and regulatory guidance; our ability to obtain qualified health plan
information from our health insurance carrier partners and CMS and
incorporate it into our web platform; our ability to maintain a privacy
and security program to conform to the privacy and security requirements
of the DE Proxy Agreement as well as laws, regulations and regulatory
guidance applicable to us; the availability, reliability and performance
of the new enrollment process, the FFM website and systems; our ability
to timely meet the applicable requirements and potential changes in
laws, regulations and regulatory guidance; our ability to enroll a large
number of consumers into QHPs using this new enrollment process; the
ability for the new QHP enrollment process to handle different types of
health insurance applications; competition; a reduction of health
insurance offerings among carriers and carriers exiting the market of
selling individual and family health insurance; the impact of increased
health insurance costs on demand; our success in marketing and selling
QHPs; changes in member conversion rates and other factors that could
cause operating, financial, and other results to differ, which are
described in eHealth’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K or
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the
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