State prepares new Health Connector website; New deadlines to re-enroll SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)– Massachusetts is now preparing a new website to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people who need to re-enroll in the state’s health insurance marketplace. When you log onto the state’s health connector website right now, you will still see the old version, but representatives from the Health Connector told 22News that they are confident by November 15th, the new version will be up and running and glitch-free. Jason Lefferts spokesman for the Health Connector told 22News in last year’s enrollment period the state’s current system, for subsidized plan enrollments, needed to shift from a paper one to an electronic one, so that is lined up with the newly instated Affordable Care Act requirements. With that came glitches in figuring out who was eligible for what plan. Now, the state’s system is using a new software system, by hCentive. Lefferts said the software proved successful in several other states during the last enrollment period and has been modified to meet Massachusetts’ needs. Health insurance enrollment experts at Health New England, in Springfield, told 22News the test runs they’ve seen so far are showing improvements. “It’s going reasonably well. We are still in the testing phase so there are still things being worked out, but I’m not getting the same sense of concern that we had last year at this time,” Elin Gaynor, Assistant General Counsel at Health New England, said. Open enrollment begins November 15th, but individual’s deadlines to enroll may vary. A total of 285,000 people who currently have temporary coverage will need to re-enroll, but a proposal is in the state’s hands to do that enrollment in three waves, with three different deadlines– Jan. 15th for wave one, Jan. 31st for wave two, and Feb. 15th for wave three. For those of you currently enrolled in a non-subsidized Affordable Care Act Plan, you’re deadline to re-enroll is by the end of this year, December 31st. Missing that deadline will cause you to have a gap in your coverage.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:12:06 +0000
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