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Recent Press Releases

It’s Open Enrollment: Time for Massachusetts residents to get affordable health coverage for 2025

November 1, 2024—Open Enrollment at the Massachusetts Health Connector starts today, giving Massachusetts residents the opportunity to enroll in affordable health coverage for 2025, including through the expanded ConnectorCare program, which delivers lower premiums and lower out-of-pocket costs to more members than ever before. Anyone who needs health insurance—including people new to Massachusetts, participants in the Commonwealth’s growing gig and creative economies, and people who haven’t had health coverage in many months or years—can get covered through the Commonwealth’s state-based Marketplace, the Health Connector. Open Enrollment begins on Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 23. The deadline for coverage [...]

Friday, November 1st, 2024|Announcements, Press Release|

ConnectorCare pilot expansion creates lower costs, better access to health care for 51,000 residents

Health Connector member survey finds 88 percent have used new coverage,one in five have used preventative services previously deferred August 28, 2024 – A new report published today by the Health Connector shows that the ConnectorCare pilot expansion enabled access to lower-cost health insurance to over 51,000 Massachusetts residents and many new participants benefit from the program’s financial protections. The pilot expansion, part of the Fiscal Year 2024 state budget, is available to residents for Calendar Years 2024 and 2025. The expansion lifted income eligibility limits to the program from 300 percent to 500 percent of the federal poverty level – from [...]

Wednesday, August 28th, 2024|Announcements, Press Release|

Massachusetts health care reform’s 18th birthday: All-time high Massachusetts Health Connector enrollment, more than 1 million people covered in the last decade

April 12, 2024 – The Massachusetts Health Connector is celebrating today’s 18th anniversary of health care reform in Massachusetts, highlighting all-time high enrollment in health and dental plans, and providing health insurance to more than 1.1 million Massachusetts residents since 2015. Today, 350,000 Massachusetts residents get their health or dental coverage (or both) through the Health Connector, the most in the Marketplace’s history. This includes more than 250,000 in ConnectorCare coverage, the Health Connector’s landmark subsidized health insurance program. “Massachusetts’s historic health care reform law was signed into law on April 12, 2006, and not only created new opportunities [...]

Friday, April 12th, 2024|Announcements, Press Release|

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For all media inquiries, please contact Jason Lefferts, Director of Communications & Media Relations, at 617-933-3141.

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