SMALL EMPLOYER GUIDE | EMPLOYEE BENEFITS | ACA & HEALTH COVERAGE ACA Subsidies Are Shrinking. Here’s What Small Employers Can Do Right Now to Help Their People. Published by Solidarity Health Network | May 2026 | Small Employer Benefits Strategy For the past few years, enhanced ACA premium tax credits gave millions of workers — […]
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Automation Without Accurate Data Is Just Expensive Chaos
SHN THOUGHT LEADERSHIP · SHNINC.ORG Automation Without Accurate Data Is Just Expensive Chaos By Anne Glorioso, CEO · Solidarity Health Network, Inc. · Cleveland, Ohio The healthcare industry is racing toward automation. And honestly? Good. It’s about time. AI-powered claims systems. Electronic prior authorization. Real-time interoperability. Automated repricing. Predictive analytics. Smart provider matching. […]
ACA – Before Any of It Existed
“Why I Do This” — A Blog Series Before Any of It Existed By Anne Glorioso, CEO · Solidarity Health Network, Inc. · Cleveland, Ohio In 2001, I was called in by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to run seminars for dislocated workers. The occasion: the bankruptcy of LTV Steel, one […]
Cigna’s ACA Exit Is the Latest Domino. The Death Spiral Is Already Here
HEALTHCARE POLICY | MARKET ANALYSIS Cigna’s ACA Exit Is the Latest Domino. The Death Spiral Is Already Here. Alexandra Sczcepaniak | COO, Solidarity Health Network, Inc. | May 2026 Cigna just announced it’s exiting the ACA Marketplace at the end of 2026. 369,000 people will need to find new coverage — or go without. This […]
I Was Not Going to Let Them Win
I Was Not Going to Let Them Win By Anne Glorioso, CEO · Solidarity Health Network, Inc. · Cleveland, Ohio 2006, something new came along called the Retiree Drug Subsidy — RDS, for those of you playing along at home. For the uninitiated: the RDS program was a federal subsidy available to employers and plan […]
The Medigap Crisis We Helped Create
The Medigap Crisis We Helped Create By Alexandra Szczepaniak, Chief Operating Officer | Solidarity Health Network Medigap Plan G premiums are up anywhere from 12% to 26% depending on your carrier and state. And our industry helped build this problem. Five years ago, a Medigap rate increase over 10% was considered unusual. Now it’s rare […]
So… the Government Changed Everything About Health Insurance
So… the Government Changed Everything About Health Insurance. Cool, Cool, Cool. By Anne Glorioso, CEO · Solidarity Health Network, Inc. · Cleveland, Ohio If you work in ACA (Affordable Care Act) compliance, you already know last summer was A Lot. And I mean A LOT. Two massive policy actions dropped within 40 days of […]
My Best Clients Are People I Never Enrolled – The business case for telling the truth
Blog 2 of the “Why I Do This” Series | By Anne Glorioso, CEO, Solidarity Health Network ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– ———————– I know that title sounds like a terrible business strategy. Bear with me. In the mid-1990s, I was asked to hold meetings for a group of workers who had just lost their jobs in a […]
I Had a Crossword Puzzle and No Plan – 30 years later
How I accidentally started a career I ended up loving By Anne Glorioso, CEO, Solidarity Health Network Let me set the scene for you. It’s 1995. I just graduated from Kent State University. I have a degree, a diploma, and absolutely zero idea what I want to do with my life. So I did what […]
Your Provider Roster Is Either Right or It’s a Problem
What ACA health plans — and the employers and brokers who work with them — need to know about provider directory rules, and why “close enough” stopped being good enough a long time ago. Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: a lot of ACA health plans are out there right now with provider directories that […]