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12/10/2025

We are officially booked for new individual appointments for effective dates of January 1st, 2026.

If we have not spoken to you this year, please utilize the page below, as it will walk you through self-enrollment. We highly recommend EVERYONE to do this, as premiums have gone up significantly, and making informed decisions going into the new year is advisable.

https://www.insurance-now.com/2026-OE

Applying through this link keeps us as your agent so if you were to have issues during the year we are able to assist.

Health Insurance Agent located in Atlanta, Ga. With over 20 years of experience, we are a trusted name for your Individual and Small group health insurance

11/22/2024

Hello, Hi. this is a PSA About GA access.

I know it seems scary that things are changing with ACA in our state. However, Georgia is not the first or the last state to have its own state exchange. It puts some essential pieces of the puzzle into GA's hands (including but not limited to, when our OE begins and ends, Medicaid expansion-- which we will have starting in 2025 in part due to GA Access, customer service for the exchange will be dedicated and located in GA, etc.)

Some of the other states that have their own exchanges are:
California
Colorado
DC
Illinois
Virginia
There are actually 19 states with state-based exchanges, and some of those are excellent examples of why this isn't scary.

The prospect of GA Access is actually why we have so many options available in the state of GA (remember when there were only 2? Yep. GA access is why carriers returned or entered our market.)

The Tax credits you got on HC.G are the same as you get on GA Access. the plans you had before exist the same, the only difference.. is where you sign up.

There have been some extremely beneficial things we've seen with GA Access, including how quickly documents are processed, the ways we can enroll and view our clients, how customer service is handled, wait times, etc.

All in all, while we have of course seen some first year hiccups (as we did with HC.G for several years in the beginning) overall we are extremely pleased with how the transition is going.

We do, however, encourage everyone to check in on their plans and run through their application just as we tell folks to do every year, but especially this year just in case there was any issue in transmitting data from one to the other.

Our office number is 770-396-9517 :)

Send a message to learn more

11/01/2024

Happy Open Enrollment!

Today marks the beginning of OE for the 2025 plan year for individuals and family.

We encourage everyone to book an appointment with us via our Calendly, which can be found here https://www.insurance-now.com/contact or by calling the office at 770-396-9517. As a reminder we do tend to fill up quickly as we get closer to the December 15th date for January 1st effective date deadlines. so book with us now and get on our schedule.

As a quick note, you likely have received an email from Georgia Access. This is the new platform for Georgia to enroll for ACA Coverage for individuals. Not much has changed, and there's nothing you need to do in preparation for your appointment :)

Health Insurance Agent located in Atlanta, Ga. With over 20 years of experience, we are a trusted name for your Individual and Small group health insurance

05/27/2024

Today is a day to honor our fallen soldier who gave their lives for our country. That includes those who suffered seen and unseen wounds that eventually took their lives. We remember all of them.

05/08/2024

Update on our phones and internet:

Fix one thing, another thing happens. Ah!

Internet and phones have been off and on today. We’ve got our phones forwarded if there’s a service disruption, but we’ve confirmed it’s being worked on!

Visibly, even.

05/07/2024

We just learn last night that our Voicemail is acting up, we think since an upgrade with our phones happened last Thursday.

We think we’ve solved this temporarily, however, if you find yourself calling the office and not getting a voicemail, please send us an email, or text Shelly’s work from home number at 770-580-4397. Which we’ll be diligently checking during work hours to make sure we get to everyone.

Please note that this text line will forward straight to voicemail if you call it.

11/01/2023

Happy Open Enrollment!

Today marks the beginning of OE for the 2024 plan year for individuals and family.

We encourage everyone to book an appointment with us via our Calendly, which can be found here https://www.insurance-now.com/contact or by calling the office at 770-396-9517. As a reminder we do tend to fill up quickly as we get closer to the December 15th date for January 1st effective date deadlines. so book with us now and get on our schedule

Health Insurance Agent located in Atlanta, Ga. With over 20 years of experience, we are a trusted name for your Individual and Small group health insurance

09/13/2023

We are working to resolve an issue effecting our phones and internet this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience.

07/13/2023

If y'all have been really, really lucky and blessed you may not have noticed that healthcare costs have gone up dramatically...BUT...you will...

H.R. 3561 is a bipartisan package that will reduce overall healthcare costs and increase transparency in the private health insurance market. More specifically, the bill will broaden existing requirements surrounding hospital price transparency and increase potential penalties for violating these requirements.

Contact your Representative. Take action today by clicking the link below! Please urge your Representative to cosponsor H.R. 3561 and support passage to lower healthcare costs and improve transparency for patients.
Tell your clients to take action. You can also send a direct message about why their Representatives should provide much-needed reforms to lower healthcare costs and increase transparency. Click on the link below to take Action!!

National Association of Benefit and Insurance Professionals (formerly the National Association of Health Underwriters)

06/16/2023

ATTENTION MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES!

The Biden Administration has announced lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for 43 drugs as of July 1st, 2023.

If you are on Medicare and on an expensive drug, this list is definitely worth checking out!

Humira, Minocin, Bicillin are just a few on the list.

To check for your medication, you can use the link below:
https://www.cms.gov/files/document/reduced-coinsurance-part-b-rebatable-drugs-6823.pdf

The entire story is here:
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/06/09/biden-administration-announces-savings-43-prescription-drugs-part-cost-saving-measures-president-bidens-inflation-reduction-act.html

06/02/2023

PSA
if you get your insurance through the marketplace and/or have a subsidy (You buy insurance individually, separate from a plan through your employer) Check and make sure you don't have anything requesting documents-- check your premium is what you expect it to be. We are getting an absurd amount of people who had their premiums adjusted automatically or got a letter stating they need to provide verification of income.

This on occasion is done randomly throughout the year by the marketplace (hc.g) and for some reason, this year appears to be affecting a lot of people.

They tend to send emails or/and mail notices-- they end up in people's spam, people don't expect the notices so they throw them away and then people end up with cancelations mid-year without a way to get their insurance back. (FYI your agent isn't notified when this happens, so it's a surprise to us too.)

TLDR; check with your agent/marketplace your premium hasn't changed and you don't need to provide verification of income. They are doing a widespread check on folks this year. don't get canceled.

04/04/2023

INSURANCE UPDATE REGARDING MEDICAID:
Hi Everyone,

You may have seen on the news in the past week that the government is ending the national COVID provisions that kept people from having to re-qualify for Medicaid/CHIP like they normally would have had to do in non-pandemic years.

If you are currently enrolled in Medicaid or your children are enrolled in one of the Children's Health Insurance Programs you will need to contact Medicaid to re-qualify. DO NOT WAIT for the state to contact you!

Here is a helpful link that Georgia has put up on their site to help you stay enrolled: https://staycovered.ga.gov/ - It is important to know that this provision affects many other states in addition to Georgia. Check with your state's website if you live outside of Georgia.

If you need more assistance please give me or your local insurance agent a call. Keep in mind when trying to contact us that my daughter (who is also the other agent in our office) is getting married next week and we unfortunately have a funeral to attend later this week so our office hours will be sporadic. I will post more information after I attend a government webinar on Thursday afternoon.
Our office telephone # is 770-396-9517

Medicaid Redetermination Is Coming Soon On April 1, 2023, the state of Georgia must begin verifying eligibility for all Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids® members. Update your contact information on Gateway now before the Medicaid redetermination deadline. Stay informed about your family’s Medicaid ...