However, we are required to agree to any request by you to restrict disclosures of protected health information to health insurers if you have fully paid
for your health service pertaining to such disclosures using your own money.
If that's the case, your open enrollment period is determined by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, under regulations pertaining to the Affordable Care Act (prior to 2014, there was no such thing as open enrollment for individual health insurance, but insurers in most states could reject applications from people with pre-existing conditions, or charge them higher premiums; coverage is now guaranteed issue, regardless of medical history, but enrollment is limited to open enrollment or special enrollment per
Health and Human
Services, under regulations
pertaining to the Affordable Care Act (prior to 2014, there was no such thing as open enrollment
for individual
health insurance, but insurers in most states could reject applications from people with pre-existing conditions, or charge them higher premiums; coverage is now guaranteed issue, regardless of medical history, but enrollment is limited to open enrollment or special enrollment per
health insurance, but insurers in most states could reject applications from people with pre-existing conditions, or charge them higher premiums; coverage is now guaranteed issue, regardless of medical history, but enrollment is limited to open enrollment or special enrollment periods).
You also have the right to request that we not disclose protected
health information to a
health plan
for purposes of carrying out payment or
health care operations if such protected
health information
pertains solely to a
health care item or
service for which you have paid out of pocket in - full.
08/23/16: Georgia Network
for Educational and Therapeutic Support / U.S. v. Georgia (N.D. Ga. 2016): The United States filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia in federal district court to remedy violations of the ADA
pertaining to the State's failure to provide thousands of public school students with behavior - related disabilities with appropriate mental
health and therapeutic educational
services and supports in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.