Printed on December 19, 2013
For hundreds of thousands of Individuals high quality, reasonably priced protection is simply across the nook. And ensuring folks know concerning the new choices obtainable to them, and offering a easy transition to this new day for protection is our prime precedence
Offering a easy transition
We’ve taken numerous steps that will help 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 means of January 2014.
We’re additionally working with insurance coverage corporations to make sure that shoppers with cancelled plans don’t have a niche 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 the event you or somebody you recognize have obtained a cancellation letter, right here’s what it’s best to know:
- You possibly can name 1-866-837-0677, a brand new hotline devoted to shoppers with cancelled insurance policies. A consultant will make it easier to discover protection that begins in 2014. They will clarify the choices obtainable for changing or renewing a cancelled plan. You possibly can name between 9 a.m. and seven p.m. EST Monday by means of Friday and between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday.
- If the plans obtainable within the Market are unaffordable, it’s possible you’ll be eligible for a “hardship” exemption, which is able to assist 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 imagine the Market choices in your space are unaffordable.
- You’ll then want to supply this manner together with a replica of your cancellation discover to an insurance coverage firm providing catastrophic protection in your space and apply immediately with them. The hotline can assist with questions on this selection.
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.
