Map your coverage options and deadlines
Identify employer, family, Marketplace, Medicaid, school, and other possible coverage with eligibility and enrollment timing.
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Map your coverage options and deadlines.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a coverage-option map with eligibility questions, deadlines, official contacts, current end date, and no-gap plan.What this lesson is really solving.
Identify employer, family, Marketplace, Medicaid, school, and other possible coverage with eligibility and enrollment timing. This is lesson 1 because later decisions depend on a coverage-option map with eligibility questions, deadlines, official contacts, current end date, and no-gap plan. Coverage choices depend on eligibility, timing, location, household facts, and complete cost—not age alone. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
Coverage choices depend on eligibility, timing, location, household facts, and complete cost—not age alone.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
List current coverage, end date, state, household and tax situation, employer options, family-plan possibilities, school plans, and public-program screening paths.
- 2
Record open enrollment, special enrollment, document, effective-date, and payment deadlines from official sources.
- 3
Compare continuity of providers and prescriptions before ending current coverage or assuming a new plan has begun.
See the standard in context.
Taylor confirms the new employer plan starts after a waiting period and investigates a temporary no-gap option before leaving current coverage. The learner saves a coverage-option map with eligibility questions, deadlines, official contacts, current end date, and no-gap plan and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a coverage-option map with eligibility questions, deadlines, official contacts, current end date, and no-gap plan.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Canceling current coverage before confirming eligibility, effective date, first payment, network, and prescriptions under the replacement.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: You know which options require verification, the next deadline, and how coverage remains continuous during the change.
Your deliverable
A coverage-option map with eligibility questions, deadlines, official contacts, current end date, and no-gap plan.
Watch for this
Canceling current coverage before confirming eligibility, effective date, first payment, network, and prescriptions under the replacement.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
You know which options require verification, the next deadline, and how coverage remains continuous during the change.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
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Tools, templates, and references
Pass the knowledge check above first.
Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.
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