HCC Life Insurance Company (HCC Life) today announced that it is expanding its relationship with eHealth, Inc., parent company of eHealthInsurance, to distribute its HCC Life STM short-term health insurance policy in 41 states. HCC Life offers short-term health insurance coverage to residents of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Through this partnership, eHealth customers will be able to apply for short-term health insurance products from HCC Life at eHealthInsurance.com using eHealth's eApproval technology. eApproval makes it possible for online shoppers to submit their applications for HCC Life short-term health insurance plans with an electronic signature and receive an instant response.
"By partnering with eHealth, we're making it even easier for our customers to find quality short-term health coverage," said Mark Carney, Executive Vice President of HCC Life Insurance Company. "eHealth's eApproval technology makes the application and approval process for short-term coverage a seamless, paperless, online process that's completed in a single online session for many of our customers."
"eHealth's mobile web site has been selling travel insurance from HCC Medical Insurance Services for several months now, and we're excited to add HCC Life's short-term product to our main retail Web and mobile sites," said Robert Hurley, eHealth Senior Vice President. "We also commend HCC Life's decision to utilize our eApproval technology, and believe it improves the application and approval process for customers."
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