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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Credentialing Isn’t Paperwork. It’s the Backbone of Your Network.
Every health plan and every provider network has a credentialing function. Not every health plan and every network has a credentialing *system* — and the difference between those two things is where most of the downstream pain in this industry comes from. Credentialing is the gate. It determines who is permitted to bill the plan, […]
If Your TPA Never Pushes Back, They’re Not Protecting You
Compliance failures rarely announce themselves. They don’t show up with warning lights and sirens. They accumulate quietly — in a dependent verification that was skipped, a plan document that drifted from what’s actually being administered, an eligibility file that hasn’t been reconciled in months. By the time a plan sponsor discovers the problem, it’s usually […]
Healthcare Costs Are Climbing Again. Here’s How to Get Ahead of It.
If your health plan renewal is coming up and the numbers look worse than last year, you’re not imagining it. Employers nationwide — and especially here in Ohio — are bracing for another round of significant premium increases in 2026. For many organizations, healthcare now ranks among the top two or three expense lines. That’s […]
Nearly Half of U.S. Job Seekers Are Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Give Me Better Benefits!”
If you’ve been wondering why your job postings are getting ghosted harder than a bad Tinder date, here’s a clue: today’s job seekers want benefits—and they want them served hot, fresh, and better than whatever they’re currently getting.Indeed (yes, the job site, not me declaring something with flair) released a pair of reports showing that […]
ACA Premiums to Spike 30% as Open Enrollment Nears — What Employers and Consumers Should Know
Open Enrollment for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans begins November 1, and early federal data show that consumers are in for a shock: premiums are set to rise by an average of 30% for 2026, according to filings reviewed by The Washington Post and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).This represents the […]