CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS TO ANNOUNCE
2016 CITYWIDE DAY OF ENROLLMENT
Encouraging residents to sign up for health care coverage
before
the 2016 enrollment deadline
NEW ORLEANS – On Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, the New Orleans Health
Department will join local and federal health care officials to announce the
Citywide Day of Enrollment to educate and enroll as many individuals as
possible in the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace (the
Marketplace) before the 2016 deadline. On Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, residents
will have the opportunity to attend enrollment events at convenient sites
throughout the city and get help from trained Marketplace enrollment assisters
to shop around for the best healthcare plan to meet their needs.
In December, Mayor Mitch
Landrieu announced that the City of New Orleans accepted the White House’s
Healthy Communities Challenge as part of a national effort to promote
enrollment in insurance through the Marketplace. Throughout the rest of the
Marketplace open enrollment period, which ends on Jan. 31, 2016, the City
Health Department along with its local, state and federal partners will
continue to actively engage uninsured New Orleans residents to use the
Marketplace to directly compare and purchase private health insurance options,
often for lower costs.
WHO: Kevin Counihan, CEO of the Health Insurance Marketplace,
U.S.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
Charlotte
Parent, New Orleans Health Department Director
Brian
Burton, Director of Navigators for a Healthy Louisiana, which oversees
Affordable Care Act enrollment efforts across the state
Susan
Todd, Director of 504 Healthnet, a collaboration of 22 nonprofit and
governmental organizations that form New Orleans’ health safety
net
WHAT: Citywide Day of Enrollment for Health
WHEN: Monday, Jan. 4, 2016
10
a.m.
WHERE: Daughters of Charity Health Center Carrollton
3201 S. Carrollton Ave.
New Orleans 70118
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