Health Insurance Marketplace open enrollment ends
Opportunity to finish enrollment
process available to those who started
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[April 03, 2014]
CHICAGO — Uninsured Illinois
residents who tried to apply for health coverage online, on the
phone or with in-person assistance during the Health Insurance
Marketplace open enrollment period, but ran into issues that
prevented them from getting enrolled by March 31, have until April
15 to enroll for health coverage. Residents can visit the
GetCoveredIllinois.gov
website to see if they qualify for the extra time to complete their
applications.
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"Our team is doing everything it can to help people complete the
enrollment process," said Jennifer Koehler, executive director for
Get Covered Illinois. "All of the Get Covered Illinois resources
available before March 31 are still available — online, by telephone
and in-person — to help uninsured residents get covered. We
encourage qualified residents to make finishing their enrollment a
priority and complete the process as soon as possible. We are here
to help." Nationally, the surge in the final days of open
enrollment led to more than 7 million Americans enrolling before the
deadline. Illinois enrollment numbers are not yet available, but the
GetCoveredIllinois.gov
website experienced very high volume in recent weeks, as many
Illinois residents actively engaged in the enrollment process. On
Monday, the site surpassed 2 million visitors since Oct. 1, with
half that amount coming in the last six weeks. More than 100,000
people visited the state site on Monday. The help desk for Get
Covered Illinois was also busy, fielding more than 54,000 calls from
consumers last week.
More than 333,000 Illinois residents have signed up for health
coverage under the Affordable Care Act, according to federal and
state figures. A total of 113,733 had purchased a plan through the
Health Insurance Marketplace as of the end of February; an
additional 220,000 have enrolled in expanded Medicaid under the ACA.
Get Covered Illinois is on pace to meet the state-level enrollment
estimate of 143,000 established last September for the Health
Insurance Marketplace by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (from national Congressional Budget Office estimates). Get
Covered Illinois expects to receive March enrollment numbers from
HHS in the next few weeks.
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Get Covered Illinois is urging health care consumers who qualify
to take advantage of the assistance that is being offered via the
Web, over the phone and in-person through hundreds of community
partners statewide.
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Visit the
GetCoveredIllinois.gov
website, which includes a Spanish-language version.
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Call the help desk
at 866-311-1119.
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Meet in person with a specially trained
"navigator," who can help you understand your options and help
you enroll at one of the hundreds of partner sites across the
state. There are more than 1,500 navigators throughout the state
who can be located by visiting the website and entering your ZIP
code, or by calling the help desk.
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