Individual Market News
Published January 27, 2020
See if your client qualifies for Premera Blue Cross health coverage during the special enrollment period.
If your client has experienced a qualifying life event, they may be able to apply for healthcare coverage now during our special enrollment period. To be eligible, your client will need:
- Proof of Washington state residency
- A completed application with supporting documentation received within 60 days of the life event.
Note: In addition to the listed requirements, additional documentation of the live event may be required.
Special enrollment period qualifying life events
- Birth, adoption, foster care, or guardianship
- COBRA benefits have been lost or lifetime limit has been met
- COBRA benefits have been lost because the employer didn’t remit the health plan bill
- Dependent losing employer-sponsored coverage due to age
- Discontinued coverage through the Exchange and expired grace period
- Discontinued coverage under WSHIP (Washington State Health Insurance Pool)
- Divorce, annulment, or termination of domestic partnership
- Employer-sponsored coverage is lost
- Enrollment error through the Exchange, health plan, or Health and Human Services
- Marriage or domestic partnership, including eligibility as a dependent
- Loss of health benefits from Medicaid or a public program
- Minimum essential coverage is lost
- Plan discontinues coverage to individual as a part of larger group or class
- A change in residence
Required documentation for qualifying life events
If your client has experienced any of the above qualifying life events, get the full list of required documentation needed to begin the application process.