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April 15, 2020 at 02:49 AM
Priority Health selling a short-term health insurance-major medical insurance package that’s designed to help consumers who have lost access to employer-sponsored health coverage avoid any gaps in coverage.
(Related: Short-Term Health Insurers Are Mobilizing, Too: Jeff Smedsrud)
Workers who lose access to employer-sponsored coverage have the right to enrollment in individual major medical insurance, with Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credit subsidies, through the ACA public exchange system.
But getting ACA coverage in place may take several weeks, and some newly unemployed workers may earn too much to qualify for rich subsidies.
Priority Health is offering workers who’ve lost their jobs due to COVID-19 disruption access to short-term health insurance coverage that starts immediately, along with up to 15 days of retroactive coverage.
The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based carrier is also offering a deductible credit to all new individual enrollees moving into Priority Health short-term coverage from employer group plans. The provision eliminates the need for a new enrollee to have to meet two deductibles in the same year.
The cheapest short-term policy provides coverage with a $2 million annual limit, with a $2,500 deductible and a $3,500 annual maximum, for $129 per month for a 55-year-old.
