Blog:Continuing your enrollment
If you want to change health plans, you can do it -- but only during certain times. Read this to find out when and how to change plans.
Enrollment means signing up for (or joining). When you enroll in a health plan, you sign up for the plan through South Carolina Healthy Connections Choices.
As soon as you know that you qualify for Medicaid, it will be time to enroll.
You'll get an SCHCC enrollment packet in the mail, and you will have 30 days to choose a health plan and a doctor for each person in your family who is listed in the packet. It is important that you open your packet as soon as you get it so that you can make the right choices before your deadline!
The letter in your enrollment packet will tell you what your enrollment deadline is. If you do not choose by the end of 30 days, we will choose a plan for you. It's much better if you choose, so you can select the best doctors for your family's needs.
Then, after you have been in South Carolina Healthy Connections Choices for a year, you will get another letter. This one will tell you how to change plans, if you want to.
You can change your health plan after you have been in your plan for a year. At that time, you will have 30 days to change your health plan. After the 30 days end, you will not be able to change plans until the following year.
If you are happy with your health plan, it is important for you to fill out your eligibility forms when you get the letter from the state health department. If you do not send it back in by the deadline, you could lose your benefits.
If you want to change your health plan at that time, you can log in to this website or call our call center to do it.
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