U.S. dental insurers may be warming up to the public health insurance exchanges managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

HHS reported that 141 issuers have told it that they're thinking of offering stand-alone dental plans statewide through the HHS-run exchanges in 2016.

A year ago, only 104 issuers had notified HHS of interesting in selling individual SADPs statewide through the HHS-run exchanges in 2015.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.