Can you start using your health insurance card as soon you receive it?

Posted by Dolores
Aikions asked:


I’m planning on getting health insurance for myself. Can you use your insurance card as soon you get it? I want to use it for a health check up, dental, etc…

Caffeinated Content
Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • MySpace
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb

This entry was posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 at 9:36 am and is filed under Other - General Health Care. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

« Finding Better Health Insurance Company To Deal With
Career Prospects in Community-based Mental Health in Maryland »

One Response to “Can you start using your health insurance card as soon you receive it?”

  1. zurdear Says:
    April 21st, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Website content

    Most companies will make it effective next day as long as you don’t have any ongoing/unresolved health problems. However if your medical situation is more complicated they can push the effective date back till they have answers. The insurance company will most likely ask to view medical records and/or receive an attending physician statement which because of the snail pace in medical records departments can take up to 18 business days - in other words about a month. Best advice? Start looking for insurance about 30 days before your current coverage will cease to give the underwriting department for your new company time to handle any snafus.