CMS Yet To Approve Enhanced Direct Enrollment Entities As Sign-Ups Begin

Although CMS touts the availability of a much-anticipated enhanced direct enrollment pathway -- which lets private, web-based entities, including web-brokers and issuers, link to HHS' federal data hub to verify eligibility for ACA plan enrollment and subsidies -- the agency reveals to Inside Health Policy that no EDE entities had been approved as of the start of open enrollment Thursday (Nov. 1). The agency continues to work with web partners on the transition to EDE, and the timing will...