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

For New Hampshire, marketplace type is Federally-facilitated marketplace; marketplace name is HealthCare.gov; 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:** New Hampshire _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Marketplace type:** Federally-facilitated marketplace _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Marketplace name:** HealthCare.gov _(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, 2026 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Open enrollment closes:** January 15, 2027 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Coverage year these dates are for:** 2027 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> New Hampshire did not create a state-based exchange, so New Hampshire’s Marketplace is the federally-facilitated >https://www.healthcare.gov/< HealthCare.gov . A New Hampshire Marketplace plan can be a great coverage option if you aren’t eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, and also don&#8217;t have an offer of affordable health insurance from your employer. Depending on your household income and circumstances, you may be eligible for financial assistance when you enroll in health coverage through the New Hampshire Marketplace. Four private health insurance companies offer individual/family coverage through New Hampshire&#8217;s Marketplace for 2026 1 but one is leaving at the end of 2026. (See below for details about premium and insurer changes for 2027.) Starting in 2026, New Hampshire prohibits ground ambulance providers from balance billing patients for amounts above their health plan&#8217;s regular in-network cost-sharing (deductible, coinsurance, or copays). 2 This is important, as the federal No

## Source

- https://www.healthinsurance.org/new-hampshire/

Last verified: 2026-08-14. Review by: 2026-12-12.
Part of [State health insurance marketplace assistance by state: who runs it, where subsidies start and stop, and what the state adds](https://referencesource.org/state-marketplace-assistance-programs/).