Just over 400,000 consumers selected Affordable Care Act plans on the federal health insurance exchange during the eighth week of open enrollment, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Jan. 21. Total signups reached more than 7.16 million since the enrollment period began on Nov. 15, 2014.
The most recent report covers the period of Jan. 10 to Jan. 16.
The agency also released signup statistics for each of the 37 states that refer their residents to the HealthCare.gov website . These are detailed below.
HHS releases weekly snapshots of preliminary data drawn from the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov or CuidadodeSalud.gov, and callers to the federal call center at 800-318-2596.
Nearly 676,000 applications were submitted online in the latest week, bringing the total to 9.44 million applications submitted since enrollment opened.
The HealthCare.gov site was visited by more than 3.7 million consumers during the week, for a total of 21 million since enrollment opened. This compares to 152,000 during the week for the Spanish-language CuidadodeSalude.gov site, and a total of 775,000 since enrollment opened.
More than 1.3 million consumers contacted the call center during the most recent week. They waited an average of more than 11 minutes on hold. Callers seeking a Spanish-speaking representative waited about 19 seconds.
More than 786,000 visitors used the HealthCare.gov “window shopping” tool during the week to explore coverage options available to them. Almost 28,000 window-shopped on CuidadodeSalud.gov.
HealthCare.gov States Cumulative Plan Selections,November 15 through January 16
Alabama: 134,205
Alaska: 16,724
Arizona: 169,178
Arkansas: 54,885
Delaware: 20,449
Florida: 1,270,995
Georgia: 425,927
Illinois: 286,888
Indiana: 185,730
Iowa: 36,718
Kansas: 80,064
Louisiana: 137,142
Maine: 61,964
Michigan: 299,750
Mississippi: 81,251
Missouri: 209,336
Montana: 47,206
Nebraska: 61,474
Nevada: 52,498
New Hampshire: 46,642
New Jersey: 211,788
New Mexico: 43,054
North Carolina: 458,676
North Dakota: 15,606
Ohio: 196,073
Oklahoma: 101,026
Oregon: 90,345
Pennsylvania: 422,284
South Carolina: 161,941
South Dakota: 18,040
Tennessee: 184,486
Texas: 918,890
Utah: 116,423
Virginia: 316,584
