Tennessee
For Tennessee, marketplace type is federally-facilitated marketplace; marketplace name is HealthCare.gov; marketplace website is https://www.healthcare.gov/; medicaid expansion adopted is no; where premium tax credit eligibility starts is 100% of the federal poverty line, recorded from its source on 2026-08-14.
- State
- Tennessee verified
- Marketplace type
- federally-facilitated marketplace verified
- Marketplace name
- HealthCare.gov verified
- Marketplace website
- https://www.healthcare.gov/ verified
- Medicaid expansion adopted
- no verified
- Where premium tax credit eligibility starts
- 100% of the federal poverty line our reading
- Coverage gap below the poverty line
- yes our reading
- State premium assistance programme
- none verified
- State assistance above 400% of the poverty line
- no verified
- State cost-sharing programme
- none verified
- Basic Health Program
- none verified
- State individual mandate
- no verified
- Open enrollment opens
- November 1 verified
- Open enrollment closes
- January 15 verified
- Coverage year these dates are for
- 2026 verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
Visit >https://www.healthcare.gov/< HealthCare.gov to access Tennessee’s health insurance marketplace. Here you will find an online platform to shop, compare, and choose the best health plans. Purchase individual and family health coverage with the help of an insurance agent or broker, a Navigator or certified application counselor, or an approved enhanced direct enrollment entity. 10 You can also call HealthCare.gov’s contact center by dialing 1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1-855-889-4325). The call center is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but it’s closed on holidays. How can I find affordable health insurance in Tennessee? Tennessee uses the federally facilitated exchange for individual market plans, so residents who buy their own health insurance enroll through HealthCare.gov. Ninety percent of the people who purchased health plans through the Tennessee Marketplace during the open enrollment period for 2026 coverage were eligible for advance premium tax credits (APTC), also known as premium subsidies. The APTC amounted to an average savings of $772/month and reduced the average subsidy-eligible enrollee’s premium to about $67/month. 11 But because Congress didn’t extend the federal subsidy enhancements that expired at the end of 2025, subsidies are >https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/marketplace-enrollees-face-return-of-the-subsidy-cliff/< no
— healthinsurance.org, retrieved 2026-08-14
Source
- healthinsurance.orghttps://www.healthinsurance.org/tennessee/