eHealth, Inc., incorporated on February 22, 2002, provides a private online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses. The Company is the parent company of eHealthInsurance, a private health insurance exchange where individuals, families and small businesses can compare health insurance products from various insurers side-by-side, and purchase and enroll in coverage online through its Websites (www.eHealth.com, www.eHealthInsurance.com, www.eHealthMedicare.com, www.Medicare.com and www.PlanPrescriber.com) or telephonically through its customer care centers. The Company also offers various online and pharmacy-based tools to help seniors navigate Medicare health insurance options, choose the right plan, and enroll in plans online or telephonically. Its e-commerce platform can be accessed directly through its Websites, as well as through its network of marketing partners. The Company's e-commerce technology also enables it to deliver consumers' health insurance applications electronically to health insurance carriers.
The Company's Medicare e-commerce platforms and telephonic enrollment capabilities enable consumers to research, compare and purchase Medicare-related health insurance plans, including Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. The Company markets the availability of individual and family, small business and ancillary health insurance plans of various insurance carriers through its e-commerce platforms (www.eHealth.com and www.eHealthInsurance.com). The Company generates revenue from its online sponsorship and advertising program that allows carriers to purchase advertising space in specific markets in a sponsorship area on its Website, and allows Medicare-related carriers to purchase advertising on a separate Website developed, hosted and maintained by the Company. Its technology platform enables health insurance carriers and agents to market and distribute health insurance plans online. The Company offers various plans, such as Medicare-related health insurance; various medical individual and family health insurance coverage, such as preferred provider organization, health maintenance organization and indemnity plans; health savings account-eligible insurance plans, and ancillary health insurance plans, which primarily consist of short-term, dental, life, vision and accident insurance plans.
The Company's e-commerce platforms have various features, such as online rate quoting and plan information; plan comparison and recommendations; online application and enrollment forms; electronic processing interchange, and back office systems. The Company's e-commerce platforms provide consumers online rate quotes and plan benefit information from a range of health insurance carriers. It offers online comparison and recommendation tools that condense health insurance information. Its e-commerce platform enables consumers to compare and contrast health insurance plans in a side-by-side format based on plan characteristics, such as price, plan type, deductible amount, co-payment amount, and in-network and out-of-network benefits.
The Medicare plan comparison tool enables Medicare-eligible individuals to compare plan premiums, deductibles, out-of-pocket drug expenses, coverage limitations on medications and other aspects of Medicare plans. The Company's automated recommendation capability for individual and family health insurance presents a series of questions and recommends health insurance plans based on the consumer's input. The Company's graphical Application Designer Tool allows it to capture each individual and family health insurance application's business rules and build a corresponding online application in extensible markup language (XML) format. The Company's Electronic Processing Interchange (EPI) technology integrates its online application process with health insurance carriers' technology systems, enabling it to electronically deliver the Company's consumers' applications to health insurance carriers.
The Company competes with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in California, CA. The company was established in the 1997.| Ticker | EHTH |
| Long Name | eHealth, Inc. |
| Short Name | eHealth |