Healthcare enrollment still needs work

Sylvia M. Burnwell, Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services announces that  health care enrollments are off to encouraging starts, but a lot of work is still needed in order for 2014 open enrollment season an successful one. Ms. Burnwell announces 1.9 million new consumers have selected polices through the healthcare.gov website as of December 19. The website serves 37 states. Another 4.5 million Americans have renewed their current plans, with the majority automatically re-enrolled. These numbers however; do not include the states who are running their...

Getting and staying covered in 2015

For those wanting coverage to begin on Feb. 1, 2015 he or she will need to sign up between Dec. 16 and Jan. 16. For the consumers who sign-up between Jan. 16, 2015 and Feb. 15, 2015, their coverage will begin in March 1, 2015. Please do not wait too long to enroll for health care coverage, the last day for open enrollment is Feb. 15th. If you currently have coverage through the online marketplace, it will be a good idea to go back and review your polices. You could end up find a policy, which will save your money, includes more healthcare providers,  or offers more...

6.4 Million Americans enroll for 2015 He...

The U.S. government reports that 6.4 million Americans have enrolled or were automatically re-enrolled into plans on the healthcare.gov website. This put the government at near their 9.1 million goal. The 6.4 million figure also includes only policies sold in 36 states, which use the health care website. The remain 18 states, include New York and California, which have their own online exchanges and have begun to report data separately. Out of the 6. million consumers who enrolled, about 1.9 million are new enrollees and 4.5 million are re-enrollments. Consumers who...

Healthcare.gov competes with Private sit...

The Healthcare.gov website is where consumers can shop and compare health insurance polices under the ACA and is performing better this time around and more and more consumers are enrolling for plans through their own website. The process of direct sign-ups, with the rules being finalized by CMS in 2013, which allows enrollments for subsidy-enrollment eligible Americans through their own site, instead of consumers logging onto the healthcare website and accessing financial subsides these way. When you log onto the website, it will access your record if you have previously...

An Healthcare.gov Christmas gift

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare are proposing new rules, which will give the agency power over new consumers who use the Healthcare.gov website to obtain health insurance. The new proposed rules would allow CMS to automatically renew customers’  policies ever year if he or she does not visit the site and renew it themselves. Without any prior knowledge of the customer’s current financials, health care situations, or anything else that could affect the type of policy he or she may need. The U.S. Government choose and force consumers to pay for policies...