LAS VEGAS - nvtip -- For many women, pregnancy and childbirth are among the most expensive health care costs that they will face in their lifetimes, and without adequate health insurance coverage, they can end up with tens of thousands of medical debt. Fortunately, if you are pregnant and you do not have health insurance, there may be ways that you can get the coverage that you need.

Pregnancy and the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act guarantees 10 essential health benefits to individuals with major medical insurance. Among these benefits is maternity care, meaning that all health insurance plans purchased through employers or on the Marketplace cover medical care during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care.

Prior to ACA, many plans in the individual marketplace did not cover pregnancy for new enrollees. Also, health insurance company's would deny coverage to women who were already pregnant by a method called "underwriting". If a woman became pregnant, many plans did not cover anything maternity. Underwriting is now mostly a thing of the past for health insurance. Underwriting is where a person would look at your height and weight and medications and health pre-existing conditions, and if you were too high of a "risk", you would be denied insurance coverage. Sometimes they would "exclude" your preexisting medical condition for a year, sometimes for a lifetime, it just depended on the insurance company.

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Under Obamacare, pregnancy is no longer considered to be a pre-existing condition. Health insurance companies cannot deny coverage to pregnant women or charge them more for coverage. However, in most states, pregnancy is not a life event that opens a Special Enrollment Period. This means that it does not qualify you to sign up for health insurance or make changes to your policy outside of the yearly Open Enrollment Period. You must do this during "Open Enrollment".

Please Note: Very Important

The BIRTH of a baby is a Life Event, so you can add the baby to your plan or buy them a plan for themselves, after they are born. But pregnancy is NOT a "life event" to get health coverage.

Read the full article: https://www.nevadainsuranceenrollment.com/health/insurance-during-pregnancy-newborn/

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Learn more: https://www.nevadainsuranceenrollment.com/health-insurance/

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Website: NevadaInsuranceEnrollment.com