Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace

A special legislative session starting Tuesday is expected to result in deep-red Arkansas becoming the first state to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers. read more >

Health care professionals in Arkansas are voicing skepticism that bringing managed care organizations into the state-run Medicaid program will stem the rising costs of government-provided health care. read more >

Brett Kirkman, administrator and CEO of Gastro Arkansas of Little Rock, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace, which manages the state-based health insurance exchange. read more >

Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace will launch Arkansas SHOP, the small business health insurance options program state-based marketplace at 8 a.m. on Nov. 1. read more >

The agency beat out two others for the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace contract despite not having the lowest bid. read more >

Cheryl Smith, the former director of Utah's health insurance exchange, has been hired as the executive director of the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace. The nonprofit organization was created, and compelled to explore the creation of the state's own health insurance marketplace, by the Arkansas Legislature. read more >

Oct. 1 will mark one of the biggest changes in the history of health insurance in the United States. On that day, open enrollment begins in the Health Insurance Marketplace. Several unanswered questions exist about the ACA. read more >

Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, announced Monday his three appointments to the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace board. read more >

Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday announces appointments to the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace board of directors. read more >