Health Questionnaire Exceptions

If you meet one of the exceptions listed below, you will not need to complete the Standard Health Questionnaire for individual coverage.  Contact us & we can provide a  letter to attach with your application.

If you:

And apply within:

Move outside our plan's service area within Washington state

90 days of the move

Follow your doctor from one plan's network to another plan's network

90 days of the doctor's move

Use up COBRA or lose it due to a former employer ending its plan while you are on COBRA

90 days of COBRA ending

Lose a COBRA-exempt group plan because you had a COBRA qualifying event after at least 24 months of continuous group coverage - Learn more about a COBRA qualifying event

90 days of losing COBRA-exempt coverage

Qualify for or drop COBRA, after at least 24 months of continuous group coverage

90 days of qualifying for or dropping COBRA

Lose a group plan when your employer goes out of business, and you had at least 24 months of continuous group coverage

90 days before or after plan ends

Leave Basic Health after at least 24 months of continuous coverage

90 days of leaving Basic Health

Add a newborn or newly-adopted child to the policy

60 days of the birth or adoption placement