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Health Insurance
Health
Insurance for Dependents:
Eligibility Requirements
To
meet eligibility on requirements for health insurance, the main or primary applicant will have to be at
least 183 days old or half a year, and under sixty four and
a half years old. The applicant cannot at the time be insured
by another health care coverage. The applicant will have to
be a citizen of the US or a foreign resident, whom has resided
in the US for a minimum of two years, while on a visa of permanent
status. Any dependants of the applicant will have to be a minimum
of six weeks old. The application will be individually underwritten,
with health history and any dependants in mind. To have this
application successfully underwritten, the insurance company
will have to obtain as much of your medical history as you
can give them. This process will be dealt with by a medical
questionnaire, with perhaps a telephone interview. The underwriter
may also set up further questionnaires and interviews as required.
If you satisfy a portion of the current coverage that is ongoing,
a credit for past and prior deductibles may be awarded, provided
it remains in the same calendar year. The proof of deductible
will be required by way of E.O.B or explanation of benefits.
Time you incur with the prior plan may or may not be used as
credit for your new plan. State law, and you own unique circumstances,
may indeed dictate what if any will be credible points to your
new plan. If and when you decide to stop our coverage, the
said credits will then be transferred to other insurance coverage.
There may be a waiting period, with the new company and their
policies, this should be found out before you outright terminate
your current policy. You may have to show the new underwriter
proof of current policy, to get the ball rolling with the new
company. Any pre-existing medical conditions such as an injury,
or illness, which has been diagnosed, must have had proof of
treatment, or at the very most proof of continual conditions
of said preexisting conditions within twelve months, prior
to new policy.
If the guidelines of the new companies policies have been
met, the company will have no problem giving full coverage,
for the condition. Not only is it illegal, but also it is not
beneficial to you not to disclose any preexisting conditions
when making a claim, or starting a new policy. Guidelines are
in place to help you, and to prevent fraud, other than that
if all requirements are met, again full coverage will follow.
There is a twelve-month wait period, for coverage on any undisclosed
preexisting conditions, provided the company does not seek
to close out the policy, on grounds of misinformation. You
may opt to go the term life insurance route, where there is
a beneficiary installed, to receive compensation by the policy
if the primary dies. Between the ages of eighteen and sixty
four and a half, the maximum amount allowable is $25,000 anyone
that is in the age bracket of six months to seventeen years
of age the cap is $10,000. On the schedule page of your policy,
you will find the dates of when the policy starts and stops,
provided all premiums are met on a timely fashion.
Coverage
stops as,
- Maximum
lifetime benefit has been met
- You
do not upkeep with your premiums
- You
are no longer a dependant
- You
leave the US for residency elsewhere
- The
main policy becomes terminated
This policy can be canceled with sixty days notice commencing
on he first of any month. When a policy is set up, the company
has a team of medical advisors that review each and every case,
to determine the best action to be followed. The team consists
of psychiatrists, surgeons and general practitioners. This
team can advise you on appropriate questions for treatment
with your specialist, as well as discuss with them any possible
alternatives to treatment. Should you require a second opinion,
this will be covered, by the policy. Please keep in mind, any
final decision on treatment and care, shall always be within
the right of you and your general fractioned. All non-notifying
treatments will result in a 20% exclusion from coverage. No
benefit will be paid out if he treatment is deemed non medical,
or not necessary, and you will receive a certificate of non-acceptance
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: 2006
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