{"id":4177,"date":"2013-09-11T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:09:21","slug":"key-points-to-remember-about-your-bcbsnc-grandfathered-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2013\/09\/key-points-to-remember-about-your-bcbsnc-grandfathered-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Key points to Remember about Your BCBSNC Grandfathered Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like your Grandfathered Plan, keep it. Automatic renewal will continue coverage. If you switch to a new 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC plan<\/a>, subsidies may save you money. Not switching may mean you are \u201cleaving money on the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blog-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-579\" title=\"blog-sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blog-sunset-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blog-sunset-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blog-sunset.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">BCBSNC<\/a> will be sending you your new 2014 rate in September. Starting October 1, you can go to Member Services to link to the Health Insurance Marketplace to confirm subsidies. You can compare your rate from our September rate letter to the rate of a new 2014 plan with subsidies. This side by side comparison will help you decide what is best for you.\u00a0 Remember, changes to your plan must be made by December 15, 2013 for the plan to be effective January 1, 2014.<\/h3>\n<p>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             professional agents. 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 (BCBSNC). <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health. Call us for details.<\/p>\n<p>Information from a BCBSNC publication on 8\/12\/13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like your Grandfathered Plan, keep it. Automatic renewal will continue coverage. If you switch to a new 2014 BCBSNC plan, subsidies may save you money. Not switching may mean you are \u201cleaving money on the table\u201d. BCBSNC will be sending you your new 2014 rate in September. Starting October 1, you can go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560,14,271],"tags":[23,548,820],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-bcbsnc-insurance","category-health-care-reform","tag-bcbsnc","tag-grandfathered-plans","tag-health-care-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}