HONOLULU — Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii is increasing its Hawaii Well being Entry Program to offer reasonably priced, high-quality well being care to extra residents. Launched in 2023 to help Maui residents affected by the wildfires, this system will now embrace Oahu residents for the primary time whereas persevering with to serve extra individuals on Maui. Eligible residents with out entry to Medicaid or different well being protection could apply to this system through the open enrollment interval, which runs from November 1, 2024, by January 15, 2025. U.S. citizenship shouldn’t be required to qualify.
HHAP offers a subsidy for enrollment in a delegated Kaiser Permanente Particular person and Household Plan, which eliminates or considerably reduces out-of-pocket prices for many companies at Kaiser Permanente services. The plan contains preventive care, pharmaceuticals, and pediatric imaginative and prescient companies. Funded totally by Kaiser Permanente, this system operates with none public or non-public contributions.
“Our precedence is to make sure that everybody in our communities receives the reasonably priced, high-quality well being care they deserve,” stated Ed Chan, market president of Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii. “By increasing the Hawaii Well being Entry Program to Oahu, we’re capable of attain much more residents and proceed providing essential help to these on Maui.”
HHAP is a part of Kaiser Permanente’s Charitable Well being Protection initiative, which subsidizes well being protection for low-income people with out entry to different public or non-public well being protection. In 2023, practically 200 Maui residents benefited from this system. With this growth, HHAP continues to offer entry to take care of these in want.
To be eligible to enroll and stay enrolled in this system, candidates should meet the next necessities:
- They have to dwell on Maui or Oahu.
- They have to dwell in a family with an annual revenue as much as 300% of the Federal Poverty Stage, which for 2024 is as much as $51,930 for a single particular person or $107,640 for a family of 4.
- They have to not be eligible or have entry to different public or non-public well being protection akin to, however not restricted to, Medicaid or Med-QUEST, Medicare, a job-based well being plan, or protection by a well being profit trade.
To see in case you qualify and to use, Maui and Oahu residents could contact the next organizations: