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Open Enrollment for 2023

by JA Health Insurance Services | Sep 26, 2022 | Covered California, Health Care News Links, Individual Coverage, Updates from JAHIS

Open Enrollment for 2023 begins on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. We will have links for Individual/ Family plans on our website at that time. Special enrollment outside of the Open Enrollment window is available through Covered California at https://www.coveredca.com/....

Blue Shield of California Easy$Pay Users Must Take Action!

by JA Health Insurance Services | Feb 9, 2018 | Individual Coverage, Updates from JAHIS

Blue Shield of California is switching to a new online payment system. To continue using Easy$Pay, Blue Shield’s automatic payment service, you must re-enroll before March 9, 2018, for your April automatic payment to process. If you miss this date, your April bill...

President Trump ends Cost-Sharing Subsidies

by JA Health Insurance Services | Oct 16, 2017 | Covered California, Health Care News Links, Individual Coverage, Updates from JAHIS

President Trump announced on October 12, 2017, that his administration will not be making any more CSR payments. What are Cost Sharing Reductions (CSRs)? CSR’s are payments from the government to the insurance companies which are designed to help health insurance...

Understanding the Special Enrollment Period

by JA Health Insurance Services | Mar 11, 2016 | Health Care News Links, Individual Coverage, Updates from JAHIS

You can buy health coverage outside of the open enrollment period when you have a qualifying life event—through a special enrollment period (SEP). However, the enrollment guidelines have been refined and it is not as easy as it used to be to enroll outside of open...

What is the “Special Enrollment Period”?

by JA Health Insurance Services | Apr 17, 2014 | Covered California, Individual Coverage, Medicare Coverage, Small Business, Updates from JAHIS

Special Enrollment Period Outside of the open enrollment period, you can enroll or change your coverage only if you have experienced a situation known as a triggering event, such as getting married, having a baby, or losing coverage because you lose your job (If you...

Despite Speech, Current JACL Health Plans To Cancel

by JA Health Insurance Services | Nov 16, 2013 | Individual Coverage, Updates from JAHIS

On Thursday November 15th, President Obama announced that insurance companies could extend cancelled insurance plans through 2014. In his speech, he granted discretion to insurance companies to allow people to stay on their existing plan, but did not require them to...

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