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SB128

Child-Only Plans Returning To Colorado

May 3, 2011 By Louise Norris

[…] But presumably if the child is eligible for coverage through a parent’s employer, individual health insurance carriers would not be required to offer the child a child-only policy. As we’ve noted in the past, child-only policies represent a very small fraction of the individual health insurance market, but within the child-only market, it would seem that there are a lot of children who are also eligible for other creditable coverage (albeit more expensive coverage…). It will be interesting to see if this becomes an issue once all the carriers return to the child-only market. […]

Filed Under: Health Care Goodies, Individual/Family Health

Colorado House Approves Child-Only Health Insurance Bill

April 22, 2011 By Louise Norris

The language of the law was modified to include open-enrollment periods during which children could apply for coverage, and last September the Colorado Division of Insurance officially designated those open-enrollment periods as January and July each year. The idea was that with open-enrollment periods rather than constant access to new policies, parents would be less likely to wait until a child was sick to seek coverage. But even with the open-enrollment periods, only two carriers – Rocky Mountain Health Plans and […]

Filed Under: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Individual/Family Health, Kaiser Permanente, Rocky Mountain

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