Regulations

Over 153,000 Selected Plans in Week 11

By Robert Sheen | January 21, 2016
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More than 153,600 consumers selected Affordable Care Act health care plans through the Healthcare.gov online marketplace during the 11th week of open enrollment, according to the “weekly snapshot report” issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. Enrollment ends Jan. 31.

The volume for the week of Jan. 10 to Jan. 16 was more than double the 74,200 who selected insurance plans during the 10th week of open enrollment. The total for the 11 weeks was 8.84 million, HHS reported.

“As expected, consumer interest is beginning to increase again as we near the deadline for 2016 coverage,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said.

The Healthcare.gov site had 3.1 million visitors in Week 11, up 50% from the 1.97 million visitors the prior week. The Spanish-language CuidadoDeSalud.gov site had nearly 263,000 visitors, compared to 148,000 the week before.

Nearly 560,600 consumers submitted applications during the week, more than double the 253,000 who applied in the previous week.

More than 730,000 visitors used the “window shopping” feature on Healthcare.gov, along with about 15,000 on CuidadoDeSalud.gov. The comparable figures for the prior week were about 503,000 visitors for Healthcare.gov and 10,000 for CuidadoDeSalud.gov.

For English-speaking consumers, phone calls to the HHS call center totaled over 1.1 million, up from about 830,500 the prior week. The average hold time was eight minutes and 32 seconds, compared one minute and 21 seconds in Week 10.

Calls to Spanish-speaking representatives totaled about 81,300 up from the prior week’s 63,800. Average wait times were about 29 seconds, triple the wait time a week earlier.

Since Open Enrollment began on November 1, HHS noted, 8,836,102 consumers have signed up for health coverage through HealthCare.gov or allowed their coverage to renew automatically. Including dependents, applications have been submitted for over 11.6 million Americans.

Individual plan selections for states using the HealthCare.gov platform include:

Week 11 Plan Selections
Nov 1 – Jan 16
Alabama 180,109
Alaska 21,830
Arizona 182,828
Arkansas 68,101
Delaware 26,334
Florida 1,605,623
Georgia 535,918
Hawaii 12,764
Illinois 354,962
Indiana 185,100
Iowa 51,575
Kansas 92,380
Louisiana 195,261
Maine 79,789
Michigan 327,674
Mississippi 97,909
Missouri 266,036
Montana 55,875
Nebraska 82,245
Nevada 77,717
New Hampshire 51,935
New Jersey 266,726
New Mexico 49,777
North Carolina 569,649
North Dakota 20,326
Ohio 225,173
Oklahoma 133,574
Oregon 137,820
Pennsylvania 415,351
South Carolina 211,846
South Dakota 23,890
Tennessee 245,566
Texas 1,152,013
Utah 159,623
Virginia 391,155
West Virginia 35,080
Wisconsin 224,719
Wyoming 21,849

HealthCare.gov Local Area Snapshot

Local
Markets
State Selections
to Jan 16
Abilene-Sweetwater Texas 9,769
Albany Georgia 15,452
Albuquerque-Santa Fe New Mexico 42,596
Alexandria Louisiana 9,020
Alpena Michigan 1,954
Amarillo Texas 13,848
Anchorage Alaska 14,129
Atlanta Georgia 405,103
Augusta Georgia 30,659
Austin Texas 114,782
Bangor Maine 22,451
Baton Rouge Louisiana 41,611
Beaumont-Port Arthur Texas 13,940
Bend Oregon 10,166
Billings Montana 15,843
Biloxi-Gulfport Mississippi 9,186
Birmingham (Ann and Tusc) Alabama 71,533
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill West Virginia 7,391
Boise Idaho 875*
Boston (Manchester) Massachusetts 41,480
Buffalo New York 1,270
Burlington-Plattsburgh Vermont 4,876
Butte-Bozeman Montana 9,366
Casper-Riverton Wyoming 4,794
Cedar Rapids-Wtrlo-IWC & Dub Iowa 15,739
Champaign & Sprngfld-Decatur Illinois 23,165
Charleston South Carolina 43,332
Charleston-Huntington West Virginia 15,858
Charlotte North Carolina 193,013
Charlottesville Virginia 15,421
Chattanooga Tennessee 36,984
Cheyenne-Scottsbluf Wyoming 6,229
Chicago, IL Illinois 283,454
Cincinnati, OH Ohio 45,635
Clarksburg-Weston West Virginia 5,816
Cleveland-Akron (Canton) Ohio 80,768
Columbia South Carolina 40,916
Columbia-Jefferson City Missouri 21,177
Columbus Georgia 18,992
Columbus Ohio 44,091
Columbus-Tupelo-West Point Mississippi 13,046
Corpus Christi Texas 18,177
Dallas-Ft. Worth Texas 341,290
Davenport-R. Island-Moline Iowa/Illinois 16,579
Dayton Ohio 22,006
Denver Colorado 6,863
Des Moines-Ames Iowa 19,184
Detroit Michigan 170,085
Dothan Alabama 9,015
Duluth-Superior Minnesota 6,558
El Paso (Las Cruces) Texas 59,098
Elmira (Corning) New York 1,149*
Erie New York 8,686
Eugene Oregon 19,252
Evansville Indiana 14,039
Fairbanks Alaska 2,644
Fargo-Valley City North Dakota 10,557
Flint-Saginaw-Bay City Michigan 29,904
Ft. Myers-Naples Florida 85,960
Ft. Smith-Fay-Sprngdl-Rgrs Arkansas 21,967
Ft. Wayne Indiana 21,615
Gainesville Florida 18,543
Glendive Montana 530*
Grand Rapids-Kalmzoo-B.Crk Michigan 66,347
Great Falls Montana 7,763
Green Bay-Appleton Wisconsin 49,711
Greensboro-H.Point-W.Salem North Carolina 102,010
Greenville-N.Bern-Washngtn North Carolina 41,113
Greenvll-Spart-Ashevll-And North Carolina 112,382
Greenwood-Greenville Mississippi 6,748
Harlingen-Wslco-Brnsvl-Mca Texas 50,320
Harrisburg-Lncstr-Leb-York Pennsylvania 60,850
Harrisonburg Virginia 11,846
Hattiesburg-Laurel Mississippi 10,713*
Helena Montana 2,581*
Honolulu Hawaii 12,764
Houston Texas 307,320
Huntsville-Decatur Alabama 36,120
Idaho Falls-Pocatello Idaho 2,735
Indianapolis Indiana 84,951
Jackson Mississippi 38,481
Jackson Tennessee 11,105
Jacksonville Florida 96,077
Johnstown-Altoona Pennsylvania 19,165
Jonesboro Arkansas 5,542
Joplin-Pittsburg Missouri 15,012
Juneau Alaska 3,010*
Kansas City Kansas/Missouri 100,895
Knoxville Tennessee 49,047
La Crosse-Eau Claire Wisconsin 23,268
Lafayette Indiana 3,151
Lafayette Louisiana 24,353
Lake Charles Louisiana 6,591*
Lansing Michigan 14,655
Laredo Texas 13,439
Las Vegas Nevada 54,556
Lima Ohio 1,589
Lincoln & Hastings-Krny Nebraska 36,727
Little Rock-Pine Bluff Arkansas 32,998
Louisville Kentucky 8,460
Lubbock Texas 12,640
Macon Georgia 21,651
Madison Wisconsin 33,226
Marquette Michigan 9,404
Medford-Klamath Falls Oregon 13,958
Memphis Tennessee 58,688
Meridian Mississippi 3,875*
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale Florida 598,705
Milwaukee Wisconsin 82,131
Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota 11,002
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson North Dakota 11,450
Missoula Montana 19,763
Mobile-Pensacola (Ft Walt) Alabama 61,941
Monroe-El Dorado Louisiana/Arkansas 19,860
Montgomery-Selma Alabama 18,961*
Myrtle Beach-Florence Florida 38,795
Nashville Tennessee 97,599
New Orleans Louisiana 80,809
New York New York 210,936
Norfolk-Portsmth-Newpt News Virginia 76,664
North Platte Nebraska 1,660
Odessa-Midland Texas 11,827
Oklahoma City Oklahoma 67,566
Omaha Nebraska 36,754
Orlando-Daytona Bch-Melbrn Florida 299,858
Ottumwa-Kirksville Missouri 3,615
Paducah-Cape Girard-Harsbg Illinois/Kentucky/Missouri 20,351
Panama City Florida 20,792
Parkersburg West Virginia 2,815
Peoria-Bloomington Illinois 12,857
Philadelphia Pennsylvania 274,630
Phoenix (Prescott) Arizona 129,985
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 78,213
Portland, OR Oregon 89,967
Portland-Auburn Maine 58,465
Presque Isle Maine 4,058
Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk Illinois/Missouri/Iowa 7,130
Raleigh-Durham (Fayetvlle) North Carolina 152,541
Rapid City South Dakota 7,368
Reno Nevada 21,557
Richmond-Petersburg Virginia 74,425
Roanoke-Lynchburg Virginia 47,907
Rochestr-Mason City-Austin Minnesota/Iowa 1,337
Rockford Illinois 12,469
Salisbury Maryland 6,780
Salt Lake City Utah 160,143
San Angelo Texas 4,414
San Antonio Texas 103,816
Savannah Georgia 44,633
Sherman-Ada Texas 9,042
Shreveport Louisiana 34,199
Sioux City Iowa 9,997
Sioux Falls(Mitchell) South Dakota 17,846
South Bend-Elkhart Indiana 23,983
Spokane Washington 1,269
Springfield Missouri 52,704
St. Joseph Missouri 3,735
St. Louis Missouri 122,974
Tallahassee-Thomasville Florida 25,540
Tampa-St. Pete (Sarasota) Florida 259,086
Terre Haute Indiana 9,541
Toledo Ohio 17,773
Topeka Kansas 11,748
Traverse City-Cadillac Michigan 25,184
Tri-Cities Tennessee 24,636
Tucson (Sierra Vista) Arizona 31,023
Tulsa Oklahoma 46,247
Tyler-Longview(Lfkn&Ncgd) Texas 22,605
Victoria Texas 2,121
Waco-Temple-Bryan Texas 25,438
Washington, DC (Hagerstown)   165,980
Wausau-Rhinelander Wisconsin 20,470
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce Florida 179,009
Wheeling-Steubenville Ohio 6,242
Wichita Falls & Lawton Texas 10,011
Wichita-Hutchinson Plus Kansas 35,250
Wilkes Barre-Scranton Pennsylvania 44,805
Wilmington Delaware 31,680
Yakima-Pasco-Rchlnd-Knnwck Oregon 1,741
Youngstown Ohio 12,976
Yuma-El Centro Arizona 3,537
Zanesville Ohio 1,231

*Because there was a change of 11 or fewer enrollments for Week 11, data for Week 10 was used as a placeholder to adhere to privacy standards.

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