I don't know yet if this will work with the new plans but....

My husband's Cobra ended last September and I purchased an individual plan. When I went to renew a prescription he has used for years, it was denied and he was told to go through the Step process. I called Blue Shield about it. I told them that he had been using the prescription for years. They said that if he had been using the prescription and was stable on it on his previous plan, he did not have to go through the Step process. They needed my physician to indicate on the script that the precription has been used before.

I don't see any reason that this won't work on the new plans, but we shall see....