If you miss open enrollment, check whether you qualify for a special enrollment period for Medicare, ACA, and employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Remember: You can apply for Medicaid or CHIP anytime if you qualify. If none of the above applies to you, you still have options to help ...
The annual Open Enrollment Period is a set window of time when you can enroll in variousmajor medical health insurance plansor ACA-compliant health insurance plans. During this time, you can sign up for health insurance, make adjustments to your current plan, or cancel your plan. Who is elig...
If you missed the 2025 Open Enrollment Period in your state and you do not qualify for an SEP, you may be able to apply for a short-term health insurance plan in some states. Short-term health insurance coverage can be purchased outside of OEP for up to four months during a 12-month...
Gov. Larry Hogan announced today another special enrollment period for health insurance, opening just weeks after an earlier enrollment period closed in December. Starting immediately, uninsured Marylanders can enroll in a health insurance plan through the state’s health benefit exchange through March...
Open enrollment, the period when you can enroll in or change employee benefits, occurs annually, usually near the end of the calendar year. Individual companies decide when to hold open enrollment for group insurance (or other employee benefits). During open enrollment, you can sign up for ...
HHS hasextendedthe temporary special enrollment period to facilitate marketplace enrollment for beneficiaries who lost Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage following eligibility renewals. The Medicaid continuous coverage policy ended on March 31, 2023, and stat...
For insurance agents who work in benefits, the start of fall means more than pumpkin spice everything. It’s also the start of annual open enrollment periods across the U.S. While some employee benefits plans renew outside of the traditional period – with strange renewal dates spanning from...
Insurance open enrollment is normally a period when insurance companies allow people to make decisions regarding their plans. Those decisions can be to add, drop, or change coverage for health insurance, disability insurance, or life insurance. The opportunity may be extended to new or existing cus...
As a result of changes from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Open Enrollment period for insurance is now occurring only once per year. For coverage starting in 2015, the Open Enrollment period is November 15, 2014- February 15, 2015. Individuals may also qualify for Special Enrollmen...
The next open enrollment period for plans offered in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) insurance Marketplaces is set to occur between November 15, 2014, and February 15, 2015--just when many lower-income people are financially stressed by demands of the holiday season. Recent research by ex...