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Covering Florida Awarded CMS Grant for Eighth Registration Year (OE8)

Jodi Ray, Manager of Florida Covering Kids & Families, a public and consumer-concentrated charitable enterprise of The Chiles Center, found in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, made public that her enterprise had been awarded a 1.6 million dollar by the US Health and Human Service Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services for eighth years of Obamacare registration and outreach programs, for the recent project year starting end of the year to August 2021.

During last year’s 7th Open registration season, Florida once more attained the highest number of Health Coverage Marketplace registrations in the United States exceeding the most current previous year’s outcomes by almost 10%, with 1.9 million Florida residents becoming insured under Marketplace plans.

The sum prize is slightly more over the previous year’s $1.3 million. It will let the group increase its team by welcoming two new insurance Florida consortium partners providing Guide support in the state’s Northwest side.  Insuring Florida warmly welcomes the Big Bend Area Health Education Centers team, covering Jackson, Franklin, Washington, Holmes,  Gadsden,  Gulf,  Calhoun,  Liberty, Leon, Jefferson, Taylor counties,  Wakulla, Bay, and  Madison, and the  Suwannee River AHEC, which will help in Columbia, Dixie, Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Putnam, Marion, Levy, Union counties and Suwannee.

Covering Florida group: Florida health insurance plans

In-person, telephonic and online help will help the Covering Florida group to once more cover the long waited high demand for statewide registration services when OE8 is on, mostly during the corona epidemic.  Even though we would choose to have the capability to provide much more in-person help, experience and research prove that clients are twice as likely to successfully register in acquiring in-person help as those who have tried online without assistance. Likewise, historically underserved societies have depended more on in-person help. Any Florida resident affected by COVID with queries about accessible insurance should call local partners or our office for the up-to-date available choices in their locations.

State of Florida Health Insurance: 2021 Open Registration period in Florida

Open Registration starts on November 1 this year and will continue till December 15 for that wanting Insurance starting January 1, 2021. The 2021 Open Registration period will be Limited again this year to six-weeks, starting November 1 until December 15, so consumers require to be made aware again on the deadline.

Ray said, “Our net of Navigators is known nationally for the service they offer to the societies all over Florida, for their high-quality job and for the unbelievable number of clients who have received help in gaining insurance for the last couple years. More than ever, due to the important wants connected to the pandemic, our Navigators make an impactful change in the lives of residents of Florida and be sure, we will continue with our hard work and make best efforts on educating the public and assisting them gain the insurance they need and make healthcare available to them. Our services, as usual, are given free of charge to Florida residents, and we require to get that knowledge out to our usual together with the numerous residents who have been negatively affected by the Corona pandemic.”

Ray went on, “Our Navigators do more than sign-ups and outreach, but we assist customers refresh their accounts, fix information matching problems, understand their insurance choices and how to utilize the insurance, file exemptions and appeals, update them on the effect of unpaid premiums, and introduce them to community resources and health care providers.

FL-CKF and its consortium associates provide Navigator services all through the state of Florida from the first Open Registration window in 2013. The following associates form the 2020-2021 USF statewide consortium and are all together known as “Covering Florida”:

2020-2021 USF statewide consortium Associates

• Suwannee River AHEC – Serving Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Marion, Putnam, Suwannee, and Union counties.
• Health Planning Council of Southwest Florida– Serving Glades, Hardee, DeSoto, Charlotte, Collier, Manatee, Sarasota, Lee, Hendry, and Highlands counties.
• Primary Care Access Network– Serving Osceola, Seminole, Lake, and Orange counties.
• Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida– Serving Volusia, St. Johns, Nassau, Baker counties, Clay, Duval, and Flagler.
• Epilepsy Florida – Serving Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties.
• Family Healthcare Foundation – Serving Pasco, Polk, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties
• Big Bend Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) – Serving Franklin, Gadsden, Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Gulf, Liberty, Jefferson, Jackson, Taylor, Madison, Leon, Washington counties, and Wakulla.
• University of South Florida Navigators– Serving Citrus, Brevard, Hernando, Escambia, Okaloosa Okeechobee, Indian River, Martin, St. Lucie, Walton counties, Sumter, and Santa Rosa

Due to the reduced resources for marketing and outreach, we will require more assistance from the societies and the media to ensure the Open Registration Period and deadlines are widely publicized and shared. Contact us for more information on Florida health insurance plans.

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