The Peninsula Community Health Services exceeded their expected Affordable Care Act enrollment numbers despite reportedly low numbers around the rest of the state.
CEO Monica Adams shared enrollment numbers.
Adams: “We gave a lot of community education and helped individual people just with information and to begin the process we helped around 3,000 and to actually get people from start to finish over 400 people in our area and we’re pretty proud of that. We know that there’s more than that but those are the people that we were actually able to walk them through the whole process.”
Last week the Department of Health and Social Services released numbers that showed around 13,000 Alaskans signed up for health care, 3,000 short of the 16,000 that federal officials reportedly targeted.
Adams added that they weren’t sure what to expect in enrollment for the Kenai Peninsula.
Adams: “We really didn’t have any idea, it was really just guess work in the beginning and throughout the periods that we were engaged in community education and helping people we had all kinds of questions and all kinds of opinions on it and we had a lot more people interested in finding out more than what we expected, so it was kind of a guess but to have around 3,000 people helped in our community was far more than what we expected.”