Printed on December 19, 2013
For hundreds of thousands of Individuals high quality, inexpensive protection is simply across the nook. And ensuring folks know concerning the new choices accessible to them, and offering a clean transition to this new day for protection is our prime precedence
Offering a clean transition
We’ve taken quite a few steps that can assist you:
- You now have extra time to enroll and pay your premium
- We’ve improved the window buying expertise on HealthCare.gov
- PCIP enrollees can proceed their protection by way of January 2014.
We’re additionally working with insurance coverage firms to make sure that shoppers with cancelled plans don’t have a spot in protection beginning January 1. We’re offering further assets for you in case your particular person insurance coverage coverage has been cancelled.
Assets for shoppers with cancelled plans
In case you or somebody have obtained a cancellation letter, right here’s what it’s best to know:
- You may name 1-866-837-0677, a brand new hotline devoted to shoppers with cancelled insurance policies. A consultant will allow you to discover protection that begins in 2014. They’ll clarify the choices accessible for changing or renewing a cancelled plan. You may name between 9 a.m. and seven p.m. EST Monday by way of Friday and between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday.
- If the plans accessible within the Market are unaffordable, you could be eligible for a “hardship” exemption, which can permit you to purchase catastrophic protection.
- To purchase this protection, full a hardship exemption type, and point out that your coverage has been cancelled and that you just consider the Market choices in your space are unaffordable.
- You’ll then want to supply this kind together with a replica of your cancellation discover to an insurance coverage firm providing catastrophic protection in your space and apply straight with them. The hotline might help with questions on this feature.
We’re working across the clock to guarantee that anybody who desires protection beginning on January 1 can get it. And don’t overlook that you’ve till March 31 to enroll in protection efficient in 2014.
