Published on December 3, 2013
Welcome again to the Health Insurance Marketplace®! We’ve made many enhancements over the past eight weeks that will help you full your enrollment.
Here are a number of the new options you’ll discover on HealthCare.gov:
More strong window procuring. You can now see detailed details about every Marketplace medical insurance plan supplied in your space earlier than you apply. This new device will assist you to see plan costs displayed rather more precisely, primarily based on the family data you provide. You can examine plans, coated advantages, doctor and hospital networks, and extra. No login or utility required. Just reply a couple of easy inquiries to
see plans and costs in your space. You will nonetheless want to finish the appliance to seek out out how one can get decrease prices, however this can be a a lot enhanced model of earlier data and another manner you will get the knowledge it’s good to assist you get able to enroll and discover a plan that matches your wants and funds.
You can take away downside functions. If you’ve skilled issues filling out your on-line utility, you can begin over with a model new utility. To do that, you’ll first must log in to your account; choose your present utility; after which select to “Remove” the appliance. You will then want to shut out your internet web page after which log again in utilizing your identical account. You can then begin a model new utility.
Get assist enrolling on-line, on the cellphone, or in individual. You can get assist the place and while you want it. For instance: You can begin an utility on-line after which name 1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1 855-889-4325) 24 hours a day, 7 days every week to get assist enrolling over the cellphone. You may discover in–individual assist from licensed assisters in your space. Just
enter your zip code to get began.
You can apply offline and proceed your enrollment on-line. If you submitted a paper utility or utilized over the cellphone, you’ll be able to create a Marketplace account to tug up your eligibility willpower and full your enrollment. To do that, you’ll want your utility identification quantity, and you may
contact the decision middle to get it in case you don’t realize it.
Direct enrollment in a Marketplace plan. Many insurers at the moment are providing the chance so that you can enroll straight in a Marketplace plan with that firm, whether or not by the insurance coverage firm’s web site, an agent or dealer, or an internet medical insurance vendor.
These new performance enhancements are along with the {hardware} and software program enhancements we’ve revamped the previous eight weeks to enhance the patron expertise, enhance capability, and guarantee that you could efficiently transfer by your complete enrollment course of.
We’ll proceed to
make enhancements to HealthCare.gov within the weeks and months forward, and we encourage you to come back again and discover your new protection choices. You have till December 23 to enroll in well being protection that may begin as quickly as January 1, 2014, and the Marketplace Open Enrollment interval runs till March 31, 2014.
