Maryland again delays small business health exchange

Sarah Gantz 

Reporter- Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland Health Benefit Exchange’s small business program will be delayed until April to allow health leaders more time to test the online insurance system.

The Small Business Health Options Program is one of several aspects of the state’s new virtual insurance marketplace that the exchange board agreed to delay in order to address more pressing technical issues with the marketplace’s website.

The exchange’s small business program has already been delayed once. Small businesses were originally supposed to begin enrolling in insurance through the exchange in October, when the marketplace opened to individuals. But it was delayed until January to allow more time to fix technical problems. If the small business program opens in April, coverage would take effect in June or July.

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