Healthyblue Advantage Platinum 500: Important Questions Answers Why This Matters
Healthyblue Advantage Platinum 500: Important Questions Answers Why This Matters
Healthyblue Advantage Platinum 500: Important Questions Answers Why This Matters
The Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) document will help you choose a health plan. The SBC shows you how you and the plan would
share the cost for covered health care services. NOTE: Information about the cost of this plan (called the premium) will be provided separately.
This is only a summary. For general definitions of common terms, such as allowed amount, balance billing, coinsurance, copayment, deductible , provider,
or other underlined terms see the Glossary. You can see the Glossary at www.carefirst.com/sbcg or call 1-855-258-6518 to request a copy. For more information about your
coverage, or to get a copy of the complete terms of coverage, please visit http://content.carefirst.com/sbc/contracts/HDUVB002RXXVB215.pdf.
Important Questions Answers Why this Matters:
Generally, you must pay all the costs from provider up to the deductible amount before this
In-Network: $500 individual/ $1,000 plan begins to pay. If you have other family member(s) on the plan, each family member may
What is the overall
family; Out-of-Network: $1,000 need to meet their own individual deductible, OR all family members may combine to meet the
deductible?
individual/ $2,000 family. overall family deductible before the plan begins to pay, depending upon plan coverage. Please
refer to your contract for further details.
Yes, all In-Network preventive care
services, as well as the following
(non-hospital facilities only, when
applicable): Primary care, Specialist,
This plan covers some items and services even if you haven’t yet met the deductible amount.
Are there services Retail health, Diagnostic testing,
But, a copayment or coinsurance may apply. For example, this plan covers certain preventive
covered before you meet Prescription drugs, Outpatient
services without cost sharing and before you meet your deductible. See a list of covered
your deductible ? surgery, Emergency room,
preventive services at https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits/ .
Emergency medical transportation,
Urgent care, Mental Health office
visit, Home health, Rehabilitation
services, Hospice.
Yes. Pediatric Dental: In-Network:
Are there other $25 individual; Out-of-Network: $50 You must pay all of the costs for these services up to the specific deductible amount before this
deductibles for specific individual. plan begins to pay for these services.
services? There are no other specific
deductibles.
Medical and Prescription Drug The out-of-pocket limit is the most you could pay in a plan year for covered services. If you
combined: In-Network: $1,500 have other family member(s) on the plan, each family member may need to meet their own
What is the out-of-pocket
individual/ $3,000 family; out-of-pocket limits, OR all family members may combine to meet the overall family
limit for this plan?
Out-of-Network: $3,000 individual/ out-of-pocket limit, depending upon plan coverage. Please refer to your contract for further
$6,000 family. details.
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Other Covered Services (Limitations may apply to these services. This isn’t a complete list. Please see your plan document.)
• Abortion, except in limited circumstances • Chiropractic care • Private-duty nursing
• Acupuncture • Coverage provided outside the United States.
See www.carefirst.com
• Bariatric surgery • Non-emergency care when traveling outside the
U.S.
Your Rights to Continue Coverage: There are agencies that can help if you want to continue your coverage after it ends. The contact information for those
agencies is: Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration, http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/healthreform, or call 1-866-444-EBSA (3272); or
Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, http://www.cciio.cms.gov, or call 1-877-267-2323 x61565.
Other coverage options may be available to you too, including buying individual insurance coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. For more
information about the Marketplace, visit www.HealthCare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596.
Your Grievance and Appeals Rights: There are agencies that can help if you have a complaint against your plan for a denial of a claim. This complaint is called a
grievance or appeal. For more information about your rights, look at the explanation of benefits you will receive for that medical claim. Your plan documents also
provide complete information to submit a claim, appeal, or a grievance for any reason to your plan. For more information about your rights, this notice, or
assistance, contact: Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration, http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/healthreform, or call 1-866-444-EBSA (3272); or
Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, http://www.cciio.cms.gov, or call 1-877-267-2323 x61565.
This is not a cost estimator. Treatments shown are just examples of how this plan might cover medical care. Your actual costs will be different
depending on the actual care you receive, the prices your providers charge, and many other factors. Focus on the cost sharing amounts (deductibles,
copayments and coinsurance) and excluded services under the plan. Use this information to compare the portion of costs you might pay under different
health plans. Please note these coverage examples are based on self-only coverage.
Peg is Having a Baby Managing Joe's type 2 Diabetes Mia's Simple Fracture
(9 months of in-network pre-natal care and a (a year of a routine in-network care of a (in-network emergency room visit and follow
hospital delivery) well-controlled condition) up care)
The plan’s overall deductible $500 The plan’s overall deductible $500 The plan’s overall deductible $500
Specialist Copayment $30 Specialist Copayment $30 Specialist Copayment $30
Hospital (facility) Copayment $500 Hospital (facility) Copayment $500 Hospital (facility) Copayment $200
Other Copayment $0 Other Coinsurance 25% Other Copayment $0
This EXAMPLE event includes services like: This EXAMPLE event includes services like: This EXAMPLE event includes services like:
Specialist office visits (prenatal care) Primary care physician office visits (including Emergency room care (including medical supplies)
Childbirth/Delivery Professional Services disease education) Diagnostic test (x-ray)
Childbirth/Delivery Facility Services Diagnostic tests (blood work) Durable medical equipment (crutches)
Diagnostic tests (ultrasounds and blood work) Prescription drugs Rehabilitation services (physical therapy)
Specialist visit (anesthesia) Durable medical equipment (glucose meter)
Total Example Cost $12,800 Total Example Cost $7,400 Total Example Cost $1,900
In this example, Peg would pay: In this example, Joe would pay: In this example, Mia would pay:
Cost Sharing Cost Sharing Cost Sharing
Deductibles $500 Deductibles $500 Deductibles $500
Copayments $1,000 Copayments $645 Copayments $410
Coinsurance $0 Coinsurance $308 Coinsurance $63
What isn’t covered What isn’t covered What isn’t covered
Limits or exclusions $10 Limits or exclusions $0 Limits or exclusions $0
The total Peg would pay is $1,510 The total Joe would pay is $1,453 The total Mia would pay is $973
The plan would be responsible for the other costs of these EXAMPLE covered services.
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