News 2014
Upcoming ACE TA Center Webinars to Help You Prepare for Open Enrollment
ACA Resources
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
3:30 – 4:30 PM ET
What you need to know: Open Enrollment and Health Insurance Plan Renewals for 2015
Join the ACE TA Center to find out why your enrolled clients should log into the health insurance Marketplace and learn about culturally competent strategies for engaging eligible clients that are not yet enrolled. This webinar will also introduce two new ACE TA Center tools that help explain plan renewals, tax credits and cost sharing reductions.
Read more: Upcoming ACE TA Center Webinars to Help You Prepare for Open Enrollment
In This Issue
We are just 4 days away from the beginning of Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplaces and 34 days away from the date enrollment closes for coverage that begins on January 1, 2015. (February 15 is the final deadline for coverage for 2015.)
5 Steps to Stay Covered Through the Marketplace in 2015
Marketplace
Did you know that if you bought a health insurance plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace in 2014, you can renew your current plan or enroll in a different plan for 2015? There may be new, more affordable health care plans available to you that weren't an option last year, or you may find another plan that better fits your needs.
Read more: 5 Steps to Stay Covered Through the Marketplace in 2015
Got Insurance? You Still May Pay A Steep Price For Prescriptions
Drug pricing
Sandra Grooms recently got a call from her oncologist's office. The chemotherapy drugs he wanted to use on her metastatic breast cancer were covered by her health plan, with one catch: Her share of the cost would be $976 for each 14-day supply of the two pills.
Read more: Got Insurance? You Still May Pay A Steep Price For Prescriptions
PrEPline Provides Clinicians with Advice on New HIV Prevention Tool
Providing answers
A new telephone consultation service was launched earlier this month to provide free, expert advice to clinicians across the United States about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an important new HIV prevention tool. PrEP involves taking a daily pill containing two antiretroviral drugs as a way for HIV uninfected persons to prevent HIV infection.
Read more: PrEPline Provides Clinicians with Advice on New HIV Prevention Tool