Covered California Application Instructions

Overview of Covered California Application

During open enrollment for Covered California, or during a Special Enrollment Period when you have a qualifying event, your best strategy is to do an online enrollment application. You can call SPF Insurance and one of our advisors will help you complete the application, or you can do the process yourself.

The first step is to Create An Account on Covered California. The account or profile creation is a multi-step process. See the instructions that follow below.

Once your account is complete, you can begin the application.

The Covered CA application is divided into five sections:

1. Household

   In this section you will put the information about each person in the family, and what the relationship is between each person in your application. If not a US citizen you will be asked for information about your visa or immigration status.
   Personal Data – asks you for demographic information, tax return information, and health insurance information for each person in the application. There are some tricky questions here.

2. Income

   The income section of the application breaks your total Adjusted Income into 4 categories, similar to what is shown of the first page of your federal tax return. Keeping things simple in this section will reduce your headaches.

3. Eligibility

   Here is where you tell Covered CA about any qualifying events you have. Then you sign the application and the eligibility process starts. Once complete (it takes about 10 seconds to 2 minutes, depending on how busy the website it), it will show you what you qualify for, and if you need to provide any additional information.

4. Enrollment

   This is where you select the Covered CA health plan you want. You will also be given the ability to make the binder payment at the end of this section of the application.

How To Successfully Complete Your Covered California Online Application

The first step in enrolling on Covered California is to register and create your account profile.

Click on this link to register https://v.calheers.ca.gov/apspahbx/login.portal?lang=en_US#
Click on the “Create one now” link just under the yellow Log In button.

This will take you to Step 1 of the 5 step account creation process. “Use Of This Website” page.

Check the box to agree to Covered California’s terms and conditions, and then click the gray “Continue” button on the right. You will go to the “User Information” page.

During your account setup only insert information in the required fields which have a red asterisk. Leave the social security field blank.

If an SPF Insurance broker completed the application for you and you are connecting to that application, then answer the question at the bottom with a “YES”. This will show the field where you can enter the 6 character Access Code your broker gave to you.

Click the yellow “Continue” button to go to the “Contact Information” page.

Fill in the required address information. You do not have to enter an email or a phone number.

Then click the yellow “Continue” button to go to the “Username& Password” page.

Here you will create your username and password. Write these down and keep them safe.

When you’ve entered your new password twice, you will then create a 4 digit “Pin” number. You will use this number when signing your application or making changes at any time. Therefore, remember the PIN number.

Once you’ve entered the PIN twice, click the yellow “Continue” button in the lower right.

In this example the “janedoe1234” username has been used before. We’ll have to create a new username and try again.

I’ve seen many people get hung up at this stage. Don’t get frustrated. Just know that 2-3 million other people have already created usernames so you will have to be more creative than a simple name and number sometimes.

When all else fails, create your username or password using a random set of letters, numbers, and special characters. This works 99% of the time.

Then click the yellow “Continue” button in the lower right to go to the “Account Summary” page.

Verify that the information shown here is correct. If there are errors, you can use the gray “edit” button next to each section to make corrections.

Once the information is verified and correct, click the yellow “Continue” button in the lower right.

Congratulations! Your account is successfully set up. Now you are ready to login using the yellow “Login” button.

This will take you to the “Security Questions” page.

Once you completed these 5 security questions, make sure you write them down so you remember the answers.

Then click the gray “Continue” button in the lower right to go to the “Login Assistance” page.

Using either email or cell phone text verification is optional. If you do not want to give out your email or phone number, then check the box at the very bottom and then click the gray “Continue” box in the lower right. You will go to the home page of your Covered California application.

This is the home page for your Covered California application.

Every time you log in to your account you will come to this page.

Begin your application by clicking the yellow “Apply Now” button.

Connect SPF Insurance To Your Covered California Application

After you log into your CoveredCA.com account, and after you click the “Apply Now” button, put your cursor over the “NEED HELP?” link in the upper right corner. In the drop down menu, select “Find Local Help.”

This will bring up a panel on top of the page that shows 3 options: Find Certified Enrollment Counselor, Agents, County Human Services Agencies.
Click the yellow Find Agents button. This will switch you to the search panel.

Use the “Search by Name” options and enter: “SPF Insurance” in the Business Name and then click the yellow “Search” button.

If you have been working with a specific broker at SPF Insurance, you can enter their first and last name and then click the yellow “Search” button.

This will take you to the search results page.

You’ll probably see only one listing. If there is more than one, select the one with the San Diego county address (SPF Insurance corporate headquarters is San Diego, CA 92128 address, and Timothy Thompson is the founder). Click on the name, and that will take you to the broker profile page.

In the upper portion of the profile there is a blue Agent Selection area with a Yellow “Continue” button.
Click the Continue button to begin the designation process.

On this page you will see 3 check boxes and an electronic signature to fill in.
Covered California requires that you check all 3 boxes in order to designate your application to be accessible to SPF Insurance brokers for assistance assistance.
Once you’ve completed the signature, click the yellow “Confirm” button.

At this point you are done, and you will see a “Success!” message.
To get out of this area and go back to your application just click the “x” in the upper right corner of your browser window, or click the gray “Close” button at the lower right corner, and it will remove the panel.

At this point you have successfully attached SPF Insurance to your Covered California Application, and you are ready to begin completing the application.