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In reply to the discussion: Here I am in a new city, embarking on trying to find an Obamacare doctor. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)First, once you enroll, you can't use healthcare.gov any more. That's for the purpose enrolling. When you go back in, you have access only to your application, messages from the govt, your profile, etc. Not the plans that had been available when you joined, or anything like that.
There is/was a feature where you could plug in a dr name to see if it is included in what plans, but that info would be....what the ins. cos. provide, of course. The govt does not enroll providers or keep lists of the providers. There is also a link for each ins. co. to its website or its provider list, and its drug list.
I have the provider and drug lists direct from the ins. co. There is nothing on healthcare.gov that the ins. co. wouldn't have or didn't provide.
The provider lists, so far for me, are woefully out of date and in some cases, flat out wrong. So wrong as to be fraudulent, IMO. Some were not outdated. Those drs were not primary care doctors at all, or had never participated in any ACA individual plans. One dr I tried to call had actually moved from the city the prior year.
It may be different for your state. I have enrolled in both TX and La., and they were different. I could not plug in a dr name in TX, but could in La. But that's not meaningful, anyway, since it wouldn't be correct, anyway, since the provider lists I've had have not been correct so far. And since I'm new to La., I wouldn't have a name to plug in...I'd need the whole provider list, anyway. Which I have.
But I appreciate the attempt to help.