The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires a health insurance marketplace or exchange to be established in each state. The marketplaces are entities organized to provide competitive markets for buying health insurance for individuals who do not get health care coverage through their employers and small businesses (in separate Small Business Health Options or SHOP Exchange). Health insurance marketplaces may be State-Based, Federally-Facilitated, or State-Federal Partnership. The marketplaces also present opportunities for information on the content, quality, and price of health plans sold in the marketplaces to be made available to states operating the exchanges, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), quality accreditation entities, and the public. We invite you to learn more about the health insurance marketplaces, data collection in the marketplaces, and the status of the marketplaces in each state.
Read our Fast Facts: What is a Health Insurance Marketplace?
Read our Fast Facts: Data Collection and Use in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
50 State Comparative Map: State Status on Health Insurance Marketplaces
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