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SHINE director: Needham open‑enrollment appointments full after $0 PPO plans end
Summary
The Metro West SHINE director said Needham appointments have been full since Oct. 24 after termination of two $0 PPO plans, and that people affected by those plan terminations have a special enrollment window extending into late December.
Speaker 5, director of the Metro West SHINE program, told the group that open‑enrollment appointments in Needham have been full for several weeks and that the surge follows the termination of two popular $0 PPO plans in the area. "We have been full in Needham for several weeks," she said, adding that the spike began around Oct. 24.
She said the terminated plans — the Blue Cross Blue Shield $0 PPO and the Tufts $0 PPO — have created a wave of new clients, many of them first‑time SHINE users. Speaker 5 said people enrolled in…
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