[quote=citydweller] . . . Does anyone know if plans purchased outside the Marketplace have the rates locked in for 1 year? . . . [/quote]
That’s a good question, citydweller. CoveredCA has been “hush-hush” on the details of any individual and group plans which were approved by the insurance commissioner to be sold after 10/1/13 OFF the exchange … and so has each carrier’s website.
We’ll have to wait until October 1 to recheck all the carriers’ sites (and possibly contact their employees and agents) to get these answers. I don’t think any of the carriers that are left in CA can e-mail an inquirer with individual quotes anymore because their rates now have to be standardized as to age and location … so it will be easy to show them on a table.
The carriers are all in kind of a “transition period” right now in preparation for the 10/1 rollout of enrollments for coverage beginning 1/1/14.
