TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' largest health insurer said Tuesday that it will offer another year of coverage under plans that it had expected to cancel in 2014 because of the federal health care overhaul.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas said it hopes to notify about 10,000 policyholders within the next week that they can continue with their existing, individual coverage. The company had sent them notices canceling their policies as of Jan. 1, leaving them to find new health plans.
The company's decision came less than a week after President Barack Obama announced that insurers would be allowed to keep offering existing plans for at least another year, even if those plans don't comply with federal coverage mandates. At least 4 million Americans received cancellation notices because their plans didn't meet the requirements of the 2010 health care law championed by Obama.
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