Printed on December 19, 2013
For tens of millions of Individuals high quality, inexpensive protection is simply across the nook. And ensuring individuals know in regards to the new choices obtainable to them, and offering a clean transition to this new day for protection is our high precedence
Offering a clean transition
We’ve taken a variety of 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 via 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 extra assets for you in case your particular person insurance coverage coverage has been cancelled.
Assets for shoppers with cancelled plans
When you or somebody you already know have obtained a cancellation letter, right here’s what you must know:
- You may name 1-866-837-0677, a brand new hotline devoted to shoppers with cancelled insurance policies. A consultant will show you how to discover protection that begins in 2014. They will clarify the choices obtainable for changing or renewing a cancelled plan. You may 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 Market are unaffordable, you could be eligible for a “hardship” exemption, which can help you 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 Market choices in your space are unaffordable.
- You’ll then want to offer this manner together with a duplicate of your cancellation discover to an insurance coverage firm providing catastrophic protection in your space and apply immediately with them. The hotline will help with questions on this feature.
We’re working across the clock to ensure that anybody who needs protection beginning on January 1 can get it. And don’t neglect that you’ve got till March 31 to join protection efficient in 2014.
