# Arkansas — State health insurance marketplace assistance by state: who runs it, where subsidies start and stop, and what the state adds

For Arkansas, marketplace type is state-based marketplace on federal platform (SBM-FP); marketplace name is Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace; marketplace website is https://www.healthcare.gov/; medicaid expansion adopted is yes; where premium tax credit eligibility starts is 138% of the federal poverty line, recorded from its source on 2026-08-14.

- **State:** Arkansas _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Marketplace type:** state-based marketplace on federal platform (SBM-FP) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Marketplace name:** Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Marketplace website:** https://www.healthcare.gov/ _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Medicaid expansion adopted:** yes _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Where premium tax credit eligibility starts:** 138% of the federal poverty line _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Coverage gap below the poverty line:** no _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **State premium assistance programme:** none _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **State assistance above 400% of the poverty line:** no _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **State cost-sharing programme:** none _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Basic Health Program:** none _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **State individual mandate:** no _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Open enrollment opens:** November 1 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Open enrollment closes:** January 15 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Coverage year these dates are for:** 2026 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Arkansas residents enroll in ACA-compliant plans through a state-based exchange/Marketplace that utilizes the federal enrollment platform (SBE-FP). This means people enroll through HealthCare.gov, but the state (via the Arkansas Insurance Department) oversees the exchange plans and runs its own outreach and assistance programs.

## Source

- https://www.healthinsurance.org/arkansas/

Last verified: 2026-08-14. Review by: 2026-12-12.
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