Sentences with phrase «health plan coverage prior»

Some commenters requested that pregnancy trigger a special enrollment period, so that women who are either not enrolled or are enrolled in a catastrophic plan can select and enroll in or change qualified health plan coverage prior to the birth of a newborn.

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Some Medicare Advantage plans provide worldwide coverage benefits for senior health care insurance needs, but you will have to verify with your plan prior to traveling outside the U.S. to be sure.

And although a permanent move to a new area (where different health plans are available) is a qualifying event, it only triggers a special enrollment period if you already had coverage prior to the move.

Anything not under those 5 categories must use the general calculation (e.g., the beneficiary may be counted with 18 months of general coverage, but only 6 months of dental coverage, because the beneficiary did not have a general health plan that covered dental until 6 months prior to the application date).

Under HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), employer - sponsored (group) plans were allowed to impose pre-existing condition exclusion periods if a new enrollee didn't have at least 12 months of creditable coverage (ie, had been uninsured prior to enrolling in the group plan) without gaps of 63 or more days (18 months of creditable coverage could be required if the person was enrolling in the group plan late, after his or her initial enrollment window had passed).

How much your health insurance will cost under COBRA depends on how much that same health plan cost prior to switching to COBRA coverage.

Mental health was also a focus of Croakey's election coverage, with Labor committing to an $ 84 million plan that included a 50 per cent suicide reduction target and the Coalition announcing a $ 192 milion plan for a number of new policies, including a new text - based suicide prevention initiative, prior to the election.