The most important piece of advice health experts have for consumers
shopping during this open enrollment period: Shop around and choose a plan that best meets your needs.
If you're planning on shopping on one of the marketplaces, make sure that you're
shopping during Open Enrollment (or that you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period).
Not exact matches
And finally, October is often the time of year for many people to
shop for health insurance
during open enrollment periods.
The commenter supported our proposed provision because it establishes flexibility for State - based
SHOPs to establish their own effective dates
during the initial and annual
open enrollment periods, including mid-month effective dates.
You know you need to
shop for health insurance
during Open Enrollment.
However, if you don't purchase health insurance
during open enrollment, you may be eligible to
shop during a special
enrollment period.
Take note of this when you're comparing plans
during open enrollment, or when you're
shopping for health insurance.
Second, we propose to amend § 155.725 (h) so that
SHOPs would need only to establish effective dates for employees enrolling in coverage
during the initial group
enrollment and the employee annual
open enrollment period, rather than for special
enrollment periods, because
SHOPs must ensure that effective dates for employees enrolling
during special
enrollment periods are consistent with the effective dates specified in § 155.420 (b).
(1) The
SHOP must establish effective dates of coverage for qualified employees enrolling in coverage for the first time, and for qualified employees enrolling
during the annual
open enrollment period described in paragraph (e) of this section.
At proposed paragraph (h)(2), we would also codify the effective dates for coverage in the Federally - facilitated
SHOP for
enrollments during initial and annual
open enrollment periods.
I mean, what else, other that the basic health insurance stuff, what else are you
shopping for
during open enrollment?
If you find yourself in the crosshairs of a rate increase and are wondering what to do, you should
shop around and check other health insurance options
during the upcoming
open enrollment period.