Trust & transparency
Editorial Policy
HealthPlansGuide publishes general health coverage information using official sources first, human review, and visible boundaries for topics that require direct official verification.
- Maintained by
- HealthPlansGuide
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-04
What this page covers
These pages document editorial, privacy, correction, and contact boundaries for the public HealthPlansGuide site.
Source order
When public guidance explains coverage deadlines, eligibility windows, required documents, or official routing, HealthPlansGuide uses official sources before secondary summaries.
- Federal and state program pages, statutes, regulations, official notices, and agency guidance are preferred for current rules.
- Employer, COBRA administrator, insurer, and plan documents control for a person's own coverage when those documents apply.
- Official-source facts should be separated from HealthPlansGuide analysis, interpretive context, and practical framing so readers can see where a rule comes from.
- Secondary sources may help explain context, but they should not override official program language or dated notices.
AI-assisted, human-accountable
AI tools may support drafting, comparison, proofreading, test coverage, or source-check workflows. The public page remains the responsibility of HealthPlansGuide.
- AI output should not be treated as an authority for eligibility, deadlines, pricing, provider access, legal duties, or tax treatment.
- Human review is expected before publication, especially for content that could influence health coverage timing or program routing.
- Uncertain claims should be narrowed, removed, or framed as a reason to check an official source directly.
Review cadence
Health coverage rules and routing pages can change. HealthPlansGuide uses review dates, source freshness checks, and correction notes to reduce stale or overconfident guidance.
- High-impact pages should be checked more often when annual enrollment, state program changes, federal updates, or known rule transitions are active.
- Pages should be updated promptly when an official source changes a deadline, eligibility description, routing path, or required document explanation.
- If the team cannot verify a claim with confidence, the page should direct readers back to current official sources rather than state the claim broadly.
Editorial independence and limits
Editorial review is designed to reduce confusion, not to produce individual legal, tax, medical, financial, or enrollment advice. A reader's official notices, program account, employer documents, plan materials, and agency instructions may control over general public content.
Related trust pages
- About
What HealthPlansGuide is, and what it is not.
- Corrections
How source changes and correction notes are handled.
- Privacy
The privacy boundary for public pages and tools.
- Contact
Where source and correction notes can be sent.