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About Coverage California

Coverage California provides original news and commentary for California residents, concerning the changing insurance market place.. Information from Coverage California should not be construed as legal or tax advice, rather as the personal opinions of its chief contributor, Marc Derendinger, Sr., which are based on his 30 years experience as an industry observer and market participant. Marc Derendinger is also a columnist for The Vanguard, the official publication of the San Jose Police Officers' Association, which has published his insurance column since 2002. Additional facts: • 2002 to present: Advisor to the State of California Department of Health Services’ California Partnership for Long-term Care, an innovative public-private program, bringing long-term care insurance to California employers. • 2007 CALPELRA Conference Speaker, concerning non-CalPERS Long-term Care Insurance alternatives for public agencies • Currently the president of A. Francois Derendinger Insurance Agency, Inc., located in San Jose, California, which has served the Northern Califonria community for 54 years. Past and present customers include the City of Santa Clara, City of Campbell and City of San Jose, as well as dozens of private organizations and start-ups throughout California. The firm is licensed with the California Department of Insurance under license number 0563986.

New Vision Service Plan For Individuals

Previously available to larger corporate employers, Vision Service Plan now offers the VSP Individual Plan to pretty much anyone who lives in the service area:

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Vision Service Plan

  1. How much does it cost? Get Rates!

  2. View VSP benefit details of this new program here
  3. Start a Vision Service Plan application for individual or family coverage
  4. 100% Vision Service Plan Satisfaction Guarantee!

Open Enrollment is year-round!  Learn how to enroll right now.

 

 

 

 

 

“Millions of people are without vision coverage, and we want to increase access to care for those who wouldn’t otherwise be covered through an employer,” said Ken Stellmacher, Senior Vice President & General Manager of VSP Individual Plans. “Our mission is to help people see, and one of the ways we do that is by supplying brokers with a valuable product that is affordable for their clients. Also, with adult vision care not offered as part of the new public health insurance exchanges, this is a great avenue to make vision care easily accessible to consumers.

Vision Service Plan for Individuals & Families

 

More than 50 percent of Americans are without vision coverage.1 In an effort to increase access to care, VSP® Vision Care, the nation’s largest not-for-profit vision services and benefits company, recently launched a program for insurance brokers to sell individual vision plans directly to consumers.

Authorized brokers can now sell VSP individual insurance plans through a website hosted by VSP that allows clients to self-enroll. The vision plan, created exclusively for brokers, provides individuals and families the same high-quality eye care that VSP offers through employers­—directly to individuals who don’t have access to vision care. Like VSP’s employer-sponsored plans, the individual plan also offers the lowest out-of-pockets cost in vision care with a satisfaction guarantee.

1Source:  Vision Council (June 2013 Vision Watch Vision Correction Standard Report, Table 26A) Read the full press release right here.

Additional Resources

 

For Individual and Family Health Plans, view online pricing, free of charge.