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Podcast: Current Trends for Payers - Lessons From 2026 Enrollment

Enrollment for 2026 brought major shifts for health plans, driven by new CMS rules, rising consumer expectations, and the growing pressure to modernize operations. This episode explores how plans are rethinking enrollment integrity, broker oversight, digital shopping, data quality, and how emerging interoperability requirements will reshape eligibility, provider data, and automation in the seasons ahead.

Tune in to understand how these changes affect the future of enrollment, and how leading plans are preparing now.

About Our Guest:

Alex Loera oversees the enrollment and billing operations aspect of the BPaaS ecosystem. He specializes in scaling enrollment and billing operations, improving data integrity, and strengthening compliance in high-growth, regulated environments. 

About the Author

Niki Driscoll is the host of Current Trends for Payers podcast and serves as a Product Marketing Manager at HealthEdge. Her work centers on the trends and innovations shaping the payer market, with a focus on modernization, AI, and next-generation operating models.

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