Cancelled plan? You’ve bought protection choices

Revealed on December 19, 2013

For tens of millions of People high quality, inexpensive protection is simply across the nook. And ensuring folks know concerning the new choices out there to them, and offering a easy transition to this new day for protection is our high precedence

Offering a easy transition

We’ve taken numerous steps that can assist you:

1. You now have extra time to enroll and pay your premium
2. We’ve improved the window buying expertise on HealthCare.gov
3. PCIP enrollees can proceed their protection by means of January 2014.

Assets for customers with cancelled plans

For those who or somebody you already know have acquired a cancellation letter, right here’s what you need to know:

• You’ll be able to name 1-866-837-0677, a brand new hotline devoted to customers with cancelled insurance policies. A consultant will enable you discover protection that begins in 2014. They’ll clarify the choices out there for changing or renewing a cancelled plan. You’ll be able to 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 out there within the Market are unaffordable, it’s possible you’ll be eligible for a “hardship” exemption, which can will let you purchase catastrophic protection.
• To purchase this protection, full a hardship exemption type, and point out that your coverage has been cancelled and that you simply imagine the Market choices in your space are unaffordable.
• You’ll then want to offer this way 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 may also help with questions on this feature.

We’re working across the clock to be sure that anybody who desires protection beginning on January 1 can get it. And don’t neglect that you’ve till March 31 to join protection efficient in 2014.