Benjamin Smith
Distribution Contributor
ACA marketplace and Medicare distribution: how plans actually reach people, agent economics, and the automation changing both.
Benjamin Smith is Vice President of Health Sales at Marketplace Insurance Advisors, a national insurance organization serving thousands of clients nationwide. He specializes in ACA marketplace strategy, agent development, sales leadership and building insurance distribution systems.
He works across ACA, Medicare, life and supplemental insurance markets with agents and industry partners, and focuses on where insurance meets technology, automation and AI.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Research and Development Management from Central Michigan University.
Benjamin is Vice President of Health Sales at Marketplace Insurance Advisors, where he sells the ACA and Medicare policies this desk writes about, alongside Joshua Kushnereit. Worth knowing when you weigh what he tells you.
Articles by Benjamin Smith
- Hospital price transparency rules tightened, but rate comparisons remain hard
CMS revisions that took effect in January 2026 push hospitals to publish negotiated rates as dollar figures rather than percentages or formulas, with enforcement starting in April. A Peterson-KFF...
- SEC moves to restore fixed-income cross trading for registered funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amendments to Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act, which would let registered funds once again cross trade most fixed-income securities...