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And then it spits back available plans.
In California, the number of participating companies fell to 4, I think, for this year.
Things to do next:
Determine if your primary care physician is a part of the network of any plan you consider.
Is the hospital you like AND their physician group in the network?
Understand what Deductible and Out-of-Pocket mean, and how much they are.
Know that there usually are in-network and out-of-network Deductibles and OOPs.
I was sent in May to Stanford for brain surgery, it turned out the physicians were out of network.
I'd have had to come up with an additional $15,000 or something to meet in and out of network costs, but fought it and won.
Over $500,000 of work, it's still not over but I survived and am doing well and even the shitty Anthem Blue Cross through ObamaCare worked for me.
I'm switching to Blue Shied.
Good luck--- See if you can pick two or three plans that are the right network and price before you call, that's what I did.
I go in tomorrow but not for the head.
They asked me to be a participant in a study of a new medication to fight C-Diff, a serious problem in hospitals.
I was happy to oblige in furtherance of something that might prevent or cure this particularly resistant pathogen.
I drop in about once a month for interview and blood draws.