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Missouri Health Insurance Preexisting Conditions

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Missouri Health Insurance: What You Must Know About COBRA/HIPAA and Preexisting Conditions

Its a sinking feeling to know you need health insurance and can not get any because you have preexisting conditions. We have plans that do cover certain preexisting conditions or if you have exhausted your COBRA coverage and do not have a Conversion Plan available to you.

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Like with most states, Missouri health insurance law lays out regulations on how Missouri health insurance companies can deal with a customers pre-existing conditions. In Missouri health insurance law, a pre-existing condition is deemed a health issue that might require coverage that you have been treated for or diagnosed with in the two years prior to the beginning of your new policy.

Missouri health insurance law gives companies the right to exclude pre-existing conditions.

This exclusion period means that the Missouri health insurance companies do not have to pay for treatment of the pre-existing condition. Health insurance companies in Missouri have the right to extend exclusion periods temporarily or even permanently. There is no limit to the length of an exclusion period in Missouri health insurance law.

Generally, a "pre-existing condition exclusion" is a limitation or exclusion of health insurance benefits based on the fact that a physical or mental condition was present before the first day of coverage. Most health insurance plans in Missouri will have a period of at least 12 months sometimes 24 months before any benefits are paid on preexisting conditions and many plans place permanent or indefinite Riders on those conditions in the place of a preexisting clause.

Health Insurance companies try to discourage people from waiting until they get sick in order to purchase health insurance. One way in which they do this is to impose pre-existing condition exclusion periods. This means that if you have a medical problem which exists at the time you enroll in or purchase your health insurance, the insurance company will deny all claims pertaining to this medical problem for a certain period of time.

If you have job-based coverage, the pre-existing condition exclusion period is limited to 12 months (18 months if you are a late enrollee) and only applies to conditions for which you sought treatment in the 6 months leading up to enrollment. You be able to apply creditable coverage to offset your pre-existing condition exclusion period. For example, if you were on an individual policy before enrolling in your job-based coverage, you might be able to subtract the amount of time you were covered on your individual policy from the pre-existing condition exclusion period.

Who Qualifies for HIPAA Guaranteed Issue Missouri Health Insurance Plans

If you are coming off a COBRA Plan (meaning you have EXHAUSTED YOUR COBRA BENEFITS OF 18 MONTHS) you might qualify for HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996). To qualify for HIPAA you must be able to answer "yes" to the following six questions:

I do not have any other health insurance coverage in Missouri (or it will be involuntarily terminated soon).
I have been insured by creditable coverage for the last 18 months or more with no lapse in coverage of more than 63 days.
My most recent coverage was under a Missouri group health insurance plan, a governmental health insurance plan, or a church health insurance plan, or under an individual health insurance plan, that terminated due to: the insurers' insolvency; the insurers' discontinuance of all of its individual health insurance coverage in Missouri, or the fact that I no longer live in Missouri service area or my prior insurers network health insurance plan.
My most recent health insurance coverage was not terminated due to nonpayment of premiums, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation.
I am not eligible for any conversion plan, a group health insurance plan, Medicare or Medicaid.
I accepted and exhausted any group continuation of coverage (including COBRA) that was offered to me.

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