Healthcare.gov to stick with Accenture

As 2014 ended, Accenture won a $563 million contract to maintain the Healthcare website for the next five years. Accenture, who took over the contract in 2014 after the last contractors, fumbled the launch of the website in 2013.  The Healthcare.gov website is in the midst of 2015 open enrollment, which will end on Feb. 15. Accenture touts out three main achievements during their Dec 29th announcements: Implementing usability improvements and re-enrollment capability to support the 2015 open enrollment. Completing all transition activities in an accelerated timeline...

First Month Report: Healthcare.gov

87% of Americans who purchased 2015 polices through Healthcare.gov in the first month of open enrollment are receiving financial assistance to lower their monthly premiums. Reports released by the Department of Health and Human Services provided the first detailed analysis of enrollment during the first month of 2015 open enrollment for Obamacare. About 87% of Americans have selected healthcare plans on the website, which will start Jan., 2015. They were determined eligible for financial assistance to help lower monthly premiums, compared to 80% of enrollees who have...

Have insurance through Healthcare.gov?

Have healthcare through healthcare.gov? Below is a step by step guide on what you should do: Step 1: Check with your employer to see if affordable insurance will be offered in 2015. If it was not available in 2014 it could have changed. Step 2: Do nothing or something. If you selected the box, which allows healthcare.gov to access your medical records, yearly your 2014 subsidy and insurance will be automatically renew in 2015. Step 3: If you wish to make changes to your policy, you may sign up for a different marketplace plan on Healthcare.gov, or over the phone. If your...

The step-by-step: Getting insurance

Need healthcare coverage and want subsidy to help pay for it? Here is what is needed to be done: Step 1: Check with your employer to see they offer health care options. If they do find out how much the monthly premium will be. If, it is un-affordable, does not exist, or is poor quality, you may be able to obtain federal subsidy to purchase healthcare from the Healthcare.gov website. Step 2: Log onto the Healthcare.gov website or call 1-00-318-2596, small businesses should call 1-800-706-7896 to find out more about the marketplace. Step 3: Enroll for coverage on the...

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...