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Nye County To Remain Insured After Rural Coverage Scrap

Nye County is the only rural county in Nevada that will continue to have access to an insurance provider that announced last week it was pulling out of 14 Nevada counties - all of them rural.

Anthem Insurance said it was pulling out of the silver state health insurance exchange in 2018 because of the volatility in the state’s individual market.

Officials with the statewide exchange have called the situation a health care crisis, and are working with Governor Brian Sandoval’s office to identify solutions for the 8,000 consumers in Nevada who will be left without health insurance in 2018. Sandoval has called the situation “unacceptable.”