201K Marylanders Get Health Insurance In Special Enrollment

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — More than 200,000 Maryland residents person gained wellness security sum during a coronavirus peculiar enrollment period.

Maryland Health Connection announced Tuesday that a full of 201,141 radical had enrolled since March 2020.

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The 17-month peculiar enrollment successful effect to the pandemic was 1 of the longest of immoderate authorities successful the country. It was extended respective times arsenic the exigency continued and ended Aug. 15.

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Maryland Health Connection is administered by the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.

More than 1.3 cardinal Marylanders are presently covered done Maryland Health Connection — astir 1.2 cardinal successful Medicaid and much than 165,000 successful backstage sum with astir 80% qualifying for fiscal help. That’s up 12% compared to earlier the pandemic.

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The adjacent accidental for Marylanders to enroll successful backstage wellness security done Maryland Health Connection volition statesman Nov. 1 for the 2022 sum year.