What options exist if you've lost your job-based health insurance? The majority of people are eligible for other coverage.
COVID-19 and Health Insurance
COVID-19 is presenting new and challenging health insurance questions for Marylanders. The University of Maryland Extension Health Insurance Literacy Action Team has put together a short video highlighting key health insurance tips to help you stay healthy during this event.
Visit our health and wellness blog for additional resources about Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Smart Choice Health Insurance ™ - Basics
Choosing the right health care insurance plan makes you a smart consumer. Increase your understanding of health insurance and learn strategies for selecting a health care plan that will meet your health care needs and fit your spending plan.
Understand why health insurance helps prevent large unexpected health care expenses
Learn what to compare to understand health insurance costs and coverage
Identify information needed to make a smart choice health insurance decision
Smart Choice / Smart Use Health Insurance™ - Health Insurance in Your Senior Years
Knowing your health insurance options as you enter your senior years will make you a smart health care consumer. Identify smart actions that will help you become a Smart User of health insurance.
Understand what you need to know about health care cost in your senior years
Know where to go for information about Medicare and supplemental insurance options
Review strategies and use tools to help you estimate health care costs
Identify what options there are within these plans to cover long term health care
Smart Use Health Insurance™ - Managing Health Insurance and Resolving Conflicts
Do you know what to do if you are denied coverage for care? What if you think you have been billed incorrectly? Learn how to manage the process for handling disputes with your health insurance company and how to avoid them.
Use and manage health insurance to protect your health and your finances
Resolve health insurance conflicts
Avoid conflicts in the future
Smart Use Health Insurance™ - Smart Actions
Knowing how to use your health insurance will make you a smart health care consumer. Identify smart actions that will help you become a Smart User of health insurance.
Understand how to use health insurance
Learn how to manage health care expenses
Identify tools to solve a problem
Smart Use Health Insurance™ - Understanding and Estimating Health Care Costs
Taking control of your health care costs makes you a smart health care consumer. Better understand and estimate your health care expenses so you can plan for future health care costs.
Explore the types of health care costs
Learn how to determine what your health care costs might be
Smart Use Health Insurance™ - Your Health Insurance Benefits
Do you know what your health insurance covers? Understanding your health insurance benefits will make you a smart health care consumer. Learn strategies for understanding, getting and using your health insurance benefits.
Discuss health insurance benefits
Explain how you can get these benefits for you and your family
Understand why it is important to use these benefits to manage your health and finances