Published on December 19, 2013
For thousands and thousands of Americans high quality, inexpensive protection is simply across the nook. And ensuring individuals know concerning the new choices obtainable to them, and offering a clean transition to this new day for protection is our prime precedence
Providing a clean transition
We’ve taken a lot of steps that will help you:
- You now have extra time to enroll and pay your premium
- We’ve improved the window purchasing expertise on HealthCare.gov
- PCIP enrollees can proceed their protection via January 2014.
We’re additionally working with insurance coverage corporations to make sure that consumers 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.
Resources for shoppers with cancelled plans
If you or somebody you realize have obtained a cancellation letter, right here’s what you must know:
- You can name 1-866-837-0677, a brand new hotline devoted to shoppers with cancelled insurance policies. A consultant will aid you discover protection that begins in 2014. They can clarify the choices obtainable for changing or renewing a cancelled plan. You can name between 9 a.m. and seven p.m. EST Monday via Friday and between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday.
- If the plans obtainable within the Marketplace are unaffordable, it’s possible you’ll be eligible for a “hardship” exemption, which can permit you to purchase catastrophic protection.
- To purchase this protection, full a hardship exemption kind, and point out that your coverage has been cancelled and that you just imagine the Marketplace choices in your space are unaffordable.
- You will then want to offer this manner 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 will help with questions on this feature.
We are working across the clock to be sure that anybody who desires protection beginning on January 1 can get it. And don’t overlook that you’ve got till March 31 to enroll in protection efficient in 2014.