The public health insurance exchanges operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services probably ended the second open enrollment period with 77,600 registered agents.

The HHS exchanges ended the 2015 enrollment period with 46 percent more registered agents than they had a year earlier, according to officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

CMS officials gave those agent participation figures in a paperwork review statement explaining an update to the HHS exchange agent and broker registration program.

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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.