Md. Health Connection Enrollment Climbs, But Long Way To Go

Maryland Health Connection is chugging along, despite continued reports of technical difficulties on the state-run health insurance exchange. As of Friday, there were twice as many households enrolled in one of those plans as a week ago, bringing the total number of enrollees to 2,393 — according to figures released Friday by Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, the entity that operates the online marketplace.

Here are the other highlights from MHBE’s weekly report on enrollment and usage (as of Oct. 18 at 12 a.m.):

Since the exchange opened on Oct. 1, there have been:
261,139 unique web visitors
25,149 calls to the call center
34,862 accounts created
23,141 households that learned their eligibility statusMore