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• What are your protections when buying Individual Health Insurance in the State of Vermont?
     If you do not have access to employer-sponsored group insurance, you may want to buy an individual health plan from a private health insurance company. Vermont has enacted extensive insurance reforms to guarantee residents access to this kind of insurance. There are some alternatives to individual health insurance, such as COBRA and VIPER coverage.
• When do Individual Insurers have to sell you coverage?
     Companies that sell individual health insurance in Vermont are not permitted to turn you down because of your health status and other factors. However, they are not required to sell you insurance if you are able to get group insurance through your employer or the employer of a family member.
• In Vermont, insurers that sell individual health insurance must offer family coverage to persons who are interested in purchasing it.
• In Vermont, partners in a civil union are entitled to the same individual health insurance benefits and protections as married couples.
• In Vermont, newborns and newly adopted children are automatically covered under the parents’ individual health plan for the first 31 days.
     The insurer may require that the parent enroll the baby within the 31 days in order to continue coverage beyond the 31 days.
• Under Vermont law, adult children who have certain medical conditions or disabilities can remain on their parent’s individual health plan after reaching the age at which dependent coverage is usually terminated.
     Your adult child must remain dependent on you for support and be unmarried. The plan can require you to provide proof of the adult child’s medical condition or disability and financial dependency no more than once each year.
• If you are federally eligible, you are guaranteed the same right to purchase individual health insurance as other individuals.
     However, private insurers cannot impose any pre-existing condition exclusion periods on the plan you purchase.
• To be federally eligible in the State of Vermont, you must meet certain criteria:
     If you are federally eligible you are guaranteed the right to buy an individual health plan and are exempted from pre-existing condition exclusion periods. In Vermont, where state law is more protective, you do not need to meet all of the requirements of federal eligibility to have this protection. However, if you move out of Vermont, this information may be important to you.
  
  To be federally eligible, you must meet all of the following:
  * You must have had 18 months of continuous creditable coverage, at least the last day of which was under a group health plan.
  * You also must have used up any COBRA or state continuation coverage for which you were eligible.
  * You must not be eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or a group health plan.
  * You must not have health insurance. (Note, however, if you know your group coverage is about to end, you can apply for coverage for which you will be federally eligible.)
  * You must apply for health insurance for which you are federally eligible within 63 days of losing your prior coverage.
  
  Federal eligibility ends when you enroll in an individual plan, because the last day of your continuous health coverage must have been in a group plan. You can become federally eligible again by maintaining continuous coverage and rejoining a group health plan.
  
  
• What will your individual health plan cover?
     It depends on what you buy. Insurers are free to design different policies, so you will have to compare the differences carefully to decide which policy is best for you. All comprehensive health insurance policies cover hospitalization, physician services, home care, maternity care, diabetes education, and mammograms. Also, treatment for mental health and substance abuse must be covered in the same way that other illnesses are covered, with no special limits on the number of visits and covered days or on cost sharing.
• What kind of coverage can you expect for pre-existing conditions?
     If you buy an individual health plan, there are limits on pre-existing condition exclusion periods that can be imposed. Pre-existing condition exclusion periods cannot exceed 12 months. Individual health plans can look back 6 months to see if you actually received care or treatment for a condition. Genetic information cannot be considered a pre-existing condition. Pregnancy can be considered a pre-existing condition.
• In Vermont, individual health plans are not allowed to impose elimination riders, which permanently exclude coverage for a health condition, body part, or body system.
• You will get credit for prior continuous coverage that was not interrupted by a break of 63 or more days in a row.
     If you have at least nine months of prior continuous coverage, no pre-existing condition exclusion period can be imposed on your coverage. No pre-existing condition exclusion periods can be imposed on you if you are federally eligible.
• There are other factors to consider when looking to buy healht insurance in Vermont. The best way to optimize your health care dollars is to seek the help of a qualified health insurance specialist who knows the Federal, as well as, the State of Vermont laws adn regulations.

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