The following list of life changes may allow you to enroll into coverage or change plans outside of the annual open enrollment period.
- Getting married or divorced
- Having a child, adopting a child or placing a child for adoption or in foster care
- Certain changes in income
- Moving to or from Maryland
- Having a change in disability status
- Gaining or losing a dependent
- Certain losses of other health coverage (such as employer ending coverage, or loss of job or employee leaving a job that provides coverage, but not termination for consumer’s failure to pay premium)
- Becoming ineligible for Medicaid or MCHP
- Turning 26 years old if you are enrolled in coverage through your family’s plan
- COBRA coverage period ends
- Incarceration or release from incarceration
- Certain errors or exceptional circumstances