Health Care Reform: Health Insurance Plans at a Glance

What To Expect in 2014! 

Many of you are probably wondering what will change about your health insurance plans come January 2014. To get started, all Individual and Family Health Plans will disappear on January 1, 2014. If you have a Grand-Fathered plan that has been active and unchanged prior to March 23, 2010, then you are exempt from this requirement. The rest of us will be required to find a new plan that meets the required “Essential Health Benefits” law. Provided below is an image to show how the plans will be tiered.

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You are now probably wondering what the plans must include
as “Essential Health Benefits”, as defined by the Health Care Reform.
Specifically, the plans must include these 10 categories of care:

  1. Ambulance Services
  2. Emergency Services
  3. Hospitalization
  4. Maternity and Newborn Care
  5. Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Treatment
  6. Prescription Drugs
  7. Rehabilitative and Habilitative Services
  8. Laboratory Services
  9. Preventive and Wellness Services
  10. Pediatric
    Services
     

We are very excited to share with our community that
Sweeney & Sweeney will be offering health coverage inside and outside the
Exchange. Open Enrollment begins October 2013 and goes through March 2014.
Please be aware that this is the ONLY time you can obtain health coverage, and you must enroll by December 15, 2013 to have a January 1 start date for coverage. Call us for further information and stayed tuned for more to come! We still have appointments open for December!