CoveredCA Update, more or less--and doctors disappearing from network in 2013
Well, the other day I logged in and things looked like they were moving along with my California exchange app--except for the fact that somehow 'they' had reversed the month and day of birthdate for DH and me.
Still, it seemed there was progress.
Then I checked again, yesterday, to "manage verification," and saw that I had a link where I was supposed to upload income information.
I tried that link and got an error message.
I also looked at the plans and saw that the price I was initially given, after anticipated tax credits, had gone from $49 to $75, for the same bronze HSA
plan.
Today there's a step back, and not even the upload link appears. I won't even look at anything else.
I guess Covered CA is still practicing.
And in other insurance news, from my EOB I learned that the 'free' mammogram I had a couple of weeks ago is going to cost me $300+. I've had the same provider and the same plan since January 2011; however, somehow or other, my mammogram provider has dropped out of the network, with no notification to me.
Ditto for my gynecologist, so the doctor I have used for, oh, 10 years or so, as recently as 2012 at no charge for an annual well woman visit, now no longer will provide that under the insurance I've had since 2011. Again, no notification that she is no longer in my network.
So I cancelled my upcoming visit, explaining why, and guess I will look for another doctor, uhm, when the CoveredCA program gets its in-network doctors posted?
Or, I can just bite the bullet and pay out of pocket for my long-term ObGyn.
Yeah, that's what I'll do.
I hope this mess gets sorted out soon.
I am very, very grateful to have had the coverage I had for the many years I had it, and I guess I will look at these new challenges along the lines of what ClifP talked about in another post elsewhere on the forum.