Technology firm HealthSherpa on Tuesday (Dec. 4) announced it is the first private sector partner approved by CMS to use the new enhanced direct enrollment pathway to sign up consumers for exchange plans, confirming news first reported by Inside Health Policy last week. CMS has also posted a list of approved EDE entities , which, for now, includes only HealthSherpa. HealthSherpa founder George Kalogeropoulos tells IHP that the firm did a soft launch last Wednesday (Nov. 28), the...