Insurance premiums will rise on Pennsylvania’s new health insurance exchange in 2020, the Wolf administration has announced.

2020 will mark the first year Pennsylvania operates its own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act.  Previously, Pennsylvanians shopped for health insurance on the federal health insurance exchange.

Pennsylvania rates will rise an average of four percent for individual plans and 9.7 percent for small groups, the state Insurance Department has announced.  All insurers that offered plans in 2019 will do so again in 2020 and the exchange will include a new insurer and increased choice in some of the state’s 67 counties.  Beginning in 2020, residents of only six counties will have only a single insurer offering individual plans.

Learn more from this Wolf administration news release.