A Million New Covered Lives, Amazon, & Hospital-At-Home Top The Week’s Developments—The OPEN MINDS Market Intelligence Roundup

The American Rescue Plan provisions increasing health insurance subsidies for the uninsured netted almost a million Americans with new health coverage. 940,000 Americans signed up for health insurance from February 15 to April 30 of the 2021 Marketplace Special Enrollment Period (SEP). The open enrollment period has now been extended through August 15. With advance payments of tax credits under the American Rescue Plan, premiums were lowered to $86 for those enrolling in April and the median deductible for new consumers during the SEP was $50. To date during the SEP, there were 2.4 million calls to the . . .