{"id":252,"date":"2008-11-06T03:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthnews.nchealthplans.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:26:40","slug":"credit-for-prior-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2008\/11\/credit-for-prior-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIOR INSURANCE COVERAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both;\">Credit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Prior Coverage<\/a>: This is something that may or may not apply when you switch employers or insurance plans. A pre-existing condition waiting period met under while you were under an employer&#8217;s (qualifying) coverage can be honored by your new plan, if any interruption in the coverage between the two plans meets state guidelines.\u00a0 Letters of creditable coverage are sent from previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">insurance companies<\/a> to the previously insured.\u00a0 Newly enrolled customers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a> can fax their letters of creditable coverage to 919-765-7149.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\">www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our qualified agents.\u00a0 Our agency provides coverage for health insurance in North Carolina through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina\u00a0(BCBSNC).\u00a0 <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health.\u00a0 Call us for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit for Prior Coverage: This is something that may or may not apply when you switch employers or insurance plans. A pre-existing condition waiting period met under while you were under an employer&#8217;s (qualifying) coverage can be honored by your new plan, if any interruption in the coverage between the two plans meets state guidelines.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[23,136,70,396],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance-terms","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-of-north-carolina","tag-creditable-coverage","tag-prior-insurance-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}