🏥 Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Search and extract health insurance plan data from healthcare.gov by ZIP code without coding. Collect premiums, tax credits, deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums, benefits, issuer contact info, and quality ratings. Perfect for insurance shoppers, benefits consultants, researchers, and anyone building a healthcare marketplace comparison tool. Download healthcare.gov plan data as CSV, Excel, or JSON without navigating the website manually.

The Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper collects up to 50+ data fields per plan including premiums, deductibles, benefits, and quality ratings from federal marketplace plans in your ZIP code.

✨ What Does It Do

• 💰 Premium Amounts - Compare base premiums, tax-credit adjusted premiums, and APTC-eligible premiums to find the most affordable plan for your income level
• 🏛️ Plan Deductibles and Out-of-Pocket Maximums - Review deductibles by service type and network tier, plus annual out-of-pocket limits to budget for medical expenses
• 💊 Benefits with Cost-Sharing Details - Examine specific benefits like hospital stays, doctor visits, and prescriptions including copay amounts, coinsurance rates, and coverage limits
• 📋 Plan Classification and Features - Filter by metal level (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Catastrophic), plan type (HMO, PPO, EPO, POS), HSA eligibility, and specialist referral requirements
• 🏢 Issuer Contact and Network Information - Extract insurance company phone numbers, TTY lines, website URLs, and service area details to contact insurers or explore provider networks
• ⭐ Quality and Coverage Ratings - Access star ratings for overall quality, clinical outcomes, enrollee satisfaction, and plan efficiency to compare health plan performance

🔧 Input

• ZIP Code - 5-digit ZIP code to search plans for (e.g. 75201). Federal marketplace (FFM) states supported include TX, FL, NC, OH, and others. State-run marketplaces like CA, NY, and WA are not available
• Plan Year - Select the plan year to search: 2024, 2025, or 2026
• Market Type - Choose between Individual plans (personal/family coverage) or SHOP plans (small business employee coverage)
• Household Income - Annual household income in USD, used to calculate APTC tax credit eligibility and subsidy amounts. Leave blank for default $52,000
• Household Members - Add each person in the household with their age, gender, and tobacco use status. Default is a single 35-year-old non-smoker
• Metal Level Filter - Optionally filter by plan tier: Bronze (lowest premiums, highest out-of-pocket), Silver, Gold, Platinum, or Catastrophic (emergency-only coverage)
• Plan Type Filter - Optionally filter by network structure: HMO (managed network, no out-of-network coverage), PPO (nationwide network, out-of-network allowed), EPO (preferred provider), or POS (hybrid HMO/PPO)
• HSA-Eligible Plans Only - When enabled, returns only plans compatible with Health Savings Accounts, which offer tax-advantaged savings for medical expenses
• Max Concurrency - Adjust parallel requests if you encounter rate limiting. Lower values are safer but slower. Default is 10, max 50

Example input JSON:

{
  "zipCode": "75201",
  "year": 2026,
  "market": "Individual",
  "householdIncome": 52000,
  "people": [
    {"age": 35, "gender": "Male", "usesTobacco": false}
  ],
  "metalLevel": "",
  "planType": "",
  "hsaEligible": false,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}

📊 Output

Each plan includes up to 50+ data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🔑 Plan Identity	💰 Premium Data	🏥 Plan Classification
Plan ID	Base Premium	Metal Level
Plan Name	Premium With Tax Credit	Plan Type
Issuer Name	EHB Premium	Design Type
Issuer ID	Pediatric EHB Premium	Is Standardized Plan
Issuer Phone	APTC-Eligible Premium	Insurance Market
Issuer State	Out-of-Pocket Maximum	SHOP vs Individual
📋 Coverage Details	⭐ Quality Ratings	🔗 Plan Documents
Deductibles (by network)	Overall Star Rating	Benefits URL
Out-of-Pocket Limits (MOOP)	Clinical Quality Rating	Brochure URL
Covered Benefits (with limits)	Enrollee Experience Rating	Formulary (Drug List) URL
Cost-Sharing Details	Plan Efficiency Rating	Network Provider Directory
Disease Management Programs	👥 Network and Eligibility	📍 Service Area
✅ Plan Features	Specialist Referral Required	ZIP Code
HSA Eligible	Has National Network	County FIPS Code
3-Month Mail Pharmacy Order	Max Age for Child Coverage	Service Area ID
Tobacco Surcharge Lookback	Ineligible in This Area	Scraped Date
Issuer Website URL	Search Year	Error (if any)

💎 Why Choose the Healthcare.gov Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Scrapers
Direct healthcare.gov Data Source	✔️	❌
APTC Tax Credit Calculation	✔️	❌
Household Income and Member Configuration	✔️	❌
Quality Star Ratings	✔️	❌
Plan Deductibles and Out-of-Pocket Data	✔️	Partial
Benefit Details with Cost-Sharing	✔️	Partial
Pharmacy Formulary and Network URLs	✔️	❌
Metal Level and Plan Type Filtering	✔️	✔️
HSA Eligibility Filter	✔️	❌
Multi-Year Support (2024-2026)	✔️	❌
Flexible Usage Plans	✔️	❌
Up to 1 Million Results per Run	✔️	❌

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your ZIP code, household income, and plan preferences
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Benefits Consultants - Monitor plan availability and premium changes across ZIP codes to advise clients on their annual enrollment options and identify the lowest-cost plans for their household situation
• 💼 Insurance Marketplace Builders - Collect plan data in bulk to power comparison tools, mobile apps, or broker platforms that help consumers find affordable health insurance
• 🔬 Healthcare Researchers - Analyze deductible and benefit trends across metal levels and states to study how plan design impacts affordability and access to care

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Healthcare.gov Plan Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Healthcare.gov or the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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