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- Ambulatory patient services (outpatient care you get without being admitted to a hospital)
- Emergency services
- Hospitalization (like surgery and overnight stays)
- Pregnancy, maternity, and newborn care (both before and after birth)
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment (this includes counseling and psychotherapy)
- Prescription drugs
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices (services and devices to help people with injuries, disabilities, or chronic conditions gain or recover mental and physical skills)
- Laboratory services
- Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
- Pediatric services, including oral and vision care (but adult dental and vision coverage aren’t essential health benefits)
Additional benefits - Plans must also include the following benefits:
- Birth control coverage
- Breastfeeding coverage
- Essential health benefits are minimum requirements for all Marketplace plans. Specific services covered in each broad benefit category can vary based on your state’s requirements. Plans may offer additional benefits, including:
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Medical management programs (for specific needs like weight management, back pain, and diabetes).
- Any health plan bought through the Health Insurance Marketplace
- Individual health plans bought outside the Health Insurance Marketplace, if they meet the standards for qualified health plans
- Any “grandfathered” individual insurance plan you’ve had since March 23, 2010, or earlier
- Any job-based plan, including retiree plans and COBRA coverage
- Medicare Part A or Part C (but Part B coverage by itself doesn’t qualify)
- Most Medicaid coverage, except for limited coverage plans
- The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- Coverage under a parent’s plan
- Most student health plans (check with your school to see if the plan counts as qualifying health coverage)
- Health coverage for Peace Corps volunteers
- Certain types of veterans health coverage through the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Most TRICARE plans
- Department of Defense Nonappropriated Fund Health Benefits Program
- Refugee Medical Assistance
- State high-risk pools for plan or policy years that started on or before December 31, 2014 (check with your high-risk pool plan to see if it counts as qualifying health coverage)
See a more detailed list of types of plans that do and don’t count as qualifying health coverage from the IRS.
You can still get coverage outside of Open Enrollment in 2 ways:
- If you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period due to a life event like losing other coverage, getting married, or having a baby.
- If you qualify for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). You can apply any time.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE NEED FOR EXPENSIVE COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE; TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS. MANY CLIENTS ARE SAVING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS A YEAR!