BCBS Doesn't Consider this a Qualifying Life Event.

[SamIam]

My clients Aetna policies (individual) are being canceled and Blue Cross says tat is not a qualifying event

 

[somarco]

Send them to hc.gov. They will consider almost anything a QE

 

[bluediamond]

Well that BCBS is wrong, that most certainly is a SEP.

 

[SamIam]

The other carriers will but bcbs is cheaper.

 

[taterpeeler]

The other carriers will but bcbs is cheaper.

in a qle... report them to doi and cms for not following the law

 

[somarco]

report them to doi and cms for not following the law

Only challenge is, by the time that filters through the system it will be open enrollment 2016.

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Let them get their plan for 2014 then pick them up again in the upcoming open enrollment for 2015.

 

[bluediamond]

Can't you take them through the marketplace and then choose the blue plan?

 

[Blue]

It is a qualifying event. Both non subsidy directly through blue website and in .gov. We have written a number of this same scenario.

 

[bluediamond]

Blue I believe Sam is in another state and that particular BC won't recognize it as sep, even though it is. My suggestion was a way to get around what his BC is telling him.

 

[Blue]

Blue I believe Sam is in another state and that particular BC won't recognize it as sep, even though it is. My suggestion was a way to get around what his BC is telling him.

I understand. I assumed Florida. Going through the exchange even if no subsidy would be the easy way to sove it.