Insurance commissioner: Health insurance enrollment going ‘much better now’

Nearly two months after the health insurance enrollment window opened through the federal exchange serving West Virginia, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Riley reported progress for those seeking coverage.

“It is operating much, much better now and people are successfully enrolling through the website,” said Riley of healthcare.gov, the federally-run enrollment portal for West Virginia and more than 30 other states.  The enrollment period continues until March 31, 2014.

Health insurance companies in the Mountain State offered early renewals to people with plans that could have been subjected to cancellation under the Affordable Care Act.

Only those enrolling with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield are eligible for federal subsidies.

Those with the Consumer Services Division of the West Virginia Offices of the Insurance 
Commissioner are also available by calling 1-888-879-9842.