Covered California

Health officials are urging Bay Area residents to sign up for health insurance coverage through Covered California by Friday to get better prices.

Health officials are urging Bay Area residents to sign up for health insurance coverage through Covered California by Friday to get better prices.

California re-opened enrollment for Covered California, its health insurance exchange.

Covered California says it will give people more time to purchase health insurance this year.

Covered California’s enrollment declined three years in a row until 2020, when a new state law took effect that imposed a tax on people who don’t have health insurance. That same year, California spent millions of dollars on subsidies to help middle-income earners pay their monthly health insurance premiums — the first and only state to do that.

If you don’t have health insurance, you still have some time to sign up.

Americans faced a historic level of unemployment and a financial crisis brought upon by the coronavirus pandemic this year. As a response, Covered California extended its deadline to give Golden State residents more time to sign up for their health insurance.

As Californians deal with more than 500 raging wildfires amid the pandemic, Covered California has opened a special enrollment period. Those who’ve lost their jobs due to the recession or have become victim to wildfires can sign up for coverage. While the open enrollment period typically ends in January, Covered California re-opened enrollment for those affected by the “triple...

Californians have a little more time to purchase health insurance plans that take effect with the new year.

More than 130,000 people have purchased health insurance through California’s state-run marketplace for the first time, a 16% increase from last year now that the state is offering more money to help people pay their monthly premiums and will begin taxing people next year who refuse to buy insurance.

Consumers in the Southland and the rest of the state are running out of time to sign up for health care coverage under Covered California’s open enrollment period, which ends Tuesday.

The first deadline to sign up for health insurance for 2019 through California’s health insurance exchange is quickly approaching. The original Dec. 15 deadline was extended by six days, to midnight on Friday, Dec. 21.

Monthly premiums for California health insurance plans sold under former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will rise by an average of 12.5 percent next year, officials said Tuesday.

The deadline for enrolling in a health insurance plan through Covered California has been extended again to Monday at midnight.

Monthly premiums in California’s health insurance exchange will increase by more than 13 percent on average next year after two major insurers requested large rate increases, officials said Tuesday.

Covered California is scheduled on Tuesday to release 2017 premium rates for people who buy health coverage through the state’s health insurance exchange.

California will offer a special extension to buy health insurance through the state exchange for people who say they weren’t aware they would face a tax penalty for being uninsured.

About 100,000 households in California are being asked to delay filing their taxes as they await new tax documents from the Covered California healthcare exchange.

The deadline to sign up for health care in 2015 through the insurance marketplace was Sunday at midnight.

The deadline to sign up for health care in 2015 through the insurance marketplace is Sunday at midnight–or you could face a fine. NBC Bay Area’s Marianne Favro reports from The Plant Shopping Center’s Kaiser Permanente with more information.