Choose Northbay Health during open enrollment
Find the health plan that keeps you connected to leading care, local access, and the trusted providers at Northbay Health.
This season is your chance to align your health insurance coverage with the care you want. When you choose Northbay Health as your care provider during open enrollment, you connect with an experienced, world-class team of medical professionals dedicated to keeping you healthy.
What’s the open enrollment deadline?
Open enrollment typically occurs in the fall of each year. For 2027 enrollment, the deadlines are:
- CalPERS: September 14 through October 9.
- Covered California: November 1 through January 31.
- Medi-Cal: You can typically enroll in Medi-Cal year-round, but if you have both Medi-Cal and a Covered California plan, follow the Covered California dates above.
- Employer-sponsored health plans: Your company’s HR department will share the specific open enrollment dates you should follow, but most run from early fall through the end of the calendar year.
- Medicare & Medicare Advantage: October 14 through December 7.
Our Affiliated Medical Groups
When choosing your health plan, look for Northbay Health under one of our affiliated medical groups. Selecting one of these groups ensures you’ll have access to our full network of primary care providers, specialists, and hospitals – all right here in Solano County.
Medical Groups that Include Northbay Health Providers
You’ll see these names when reviewing plan details or provider networks. Choosing a plan that lists any of them keeps your care connected through Northbay Health.
Why choose a plan that includes Northbay Health?
Selecting a plan that features Northbay Health gives you one coordinated system for your everyday needs and life’s big moments. Your journey stays seamless with primary care, specialty clinics, urgent care, imaging, hospital care and behavioral health working together for you.
Your Care, Simplified
When you choose a plan that includes NorthBay, you’re choosing care that’s designed around you. Here are a few ways we make it easy to get the help you need.
At Northbay Health, our comprehensive care network means fewer interruptions in care and easier referrals within our health system.
- Hospitals in your community: Northbay Health Medical Center (Fairfield) and Northbay Health VacaValley Hospital (Vacaville) deliver emergency services, maternity and neonatal care, surgery and advanced inpatient care.
- Primary care that knows you: Family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and preventive services at convenient locations across Northern California.
- Providers who speak your language: Many of our clinicians speak more than one language. For those who don’t, we offer dedicated translation services to all patients at no cost.
- Specialists you can count on: Cardiology, orthopedics, oncology, neurology, women’s health, gastroenterology and more, all coordinated by your care team.
- Urgent care and same-day access: Timely visits for non-emergency needs, plus select after-hours options and on-site imaging.
- The only health system in Solano County offering certain advanced procedures, such as Mako Robotic-assisted joint replacements and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures.
- Integrative care options: Northbay supports your care preferences, offering doulas and maternity midwives to those seeking expert complementary care.
Our teams are driven by evidence-based practice and measurable outcomes.
Over the past 65+ years, Northbay Health has grown into a complex medical system that spans across Napa, Solano and Yolo Counties, providing care from birth to the end of life.
Our extensive health network includes:
- Two acute-care hospitals
- A Level II Trauma Center
- A Level III NICU
- A comprehensive cancer center
- Urgent and primary care locations throughout the region
- Expert specialty care
Northbay Health consistently earns new accreditations and awards, including certification through the Joint Commission and designation as Solano County’s only accredited Chest Pain Center through the American College of Cardiology.
Our nursing team has achieved Magnet with Distinction® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, which is bestowed after an organization is rigorously assessed. This recognition, among the highest in the nursing field, solidifies our commitment to excellence in healthcare and optimal patient outcomes.
Our hospitals have been recognized as “High Performing” by U.S. News in several categories, demonstrating our commitment to excellence.
Same-Day Appointments
When you or your family need care, you shouldn’t have to wait. NorthBay offers same-day appointments so you can get trusted care from providers who already know you.
New Patients
Accepted
Looking for a great new doctor? Don’t wait months to be seen. Nearly all NorthBay providers are accepting new patients, making it easy to start your care right away and stay close to home.
Virtual
Visits
We offer quality care from anywhere. With secure video or phone appointments, you can meet with NorthBay providers without ever visiting an office.
MyNorthBayDoc
Patient Portal
Manage your care anytime with the MyNorthBayDoc patient portal. Securely message your doctor, check lab results, schedule visits, and more!
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