As Friday Health Begins Shutdown, Nevada Raises Specter of Unreliable Financial Reports

  • Jun 09, 2023

    Friday Health Plans Management Services Company, Inc. — a Colorado-based insurer that offers Affordable Care Act exchange plans in seven states — is in a downward spiral. Concerned by the company’s deteriorating financial situation, state regulators are taking steps such as putting the insurer’s subsidiaries under supervision and placing them into receivership.  

    Georgia, for example, recently garnered headlines by announcing that Friday enrollees will need to find a different health plan. And Colorado said on June 1 that it will work with the insurer to wind down its business across the country due to ongoing capital shortfalls. 

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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