How To Find Out If You Have Health Insurance

How to tell if your wellness insurance has started

Baronial 24, 2017

Once y'all enroll in a Market place plan, y'all must pay your first

to your health insurance company – not the Wellness Insurance Marketplace® – so your medical coverage can begin. If you've already paid your premium, you can check if your health insurance is active online or in your plan materials to make sure your health insurance has started:

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Important Go along to pay your monthly premiums

Brand certain you lot go along to pay your monthly premiums to your wellness insurance company on time. They could end your coverage if you fall behind.

Verify your enrollment online

Log in to your HealthCare.gov account.
Click on your name in the peak right and select "My applications & coverage" from the dropdown.
Select your completed application under "Your existing applications."
Hither you'll see a summary of your coverage. Your coverage outset engagement depends on when yous enrolled or changed plans.
If you don't meet your summary or all the same aren't sure yous've finished enrollment, phone call your insurance company. They can confirm if you have enrolled and paid your first premium.

Check your health insurance enrollment materials

Your plan will ship you a membership package with enrollment materials and a health insurance card as proof of your insurance.
Carefully review these, and look through your plan's provider directory to run into where you can get care.
You lot'll use the card when yous get health care services, and then go on it in a safe identify.
If yous didn't receive a carte, call your insurer to encounter if yous should take received i already and to make sure your coverage is constructive. You tin can observe your insurer'south phone number on their website.

Want to change your health insurance programme? If yous'd like to change your program, you lot can do so at present only if you experience a qualifying life event — like losing other coverage, having a baby, or getting married — and apply with a Special Enrollment Period.