After months of worry, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar said Wednesday that no insurers are backing out of the state’s health care exchange for 2018, but consumers in the individual insurance market should expect to pay more.

Salazar said nine companies filed plans with the state this week to offer individual insurance plans in 2018. That includes all seven insurers currently offering plans on Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s health insurance marketplace where all the plans sold meet Affordable Care Act requirements and are eligible for federal tax credits to help pay the premiums.

Insurer exits from exchanges in other states — most notably in Missouri and Ohio — could leave consumers in some counties there without any options to choose from next year. Salazar said she was worried as late as last week that some counties in Colorado could join those, as insurers — especially Anthem, which is the only insurer on the exchange in 14 Western Slope counties — wavered.

But, when the deadline came Monday to file 2018 plans, Salazar said all the Colorado exchange’s insurers returned and every county had at least one carrier offering plans.

“For today, it’s business as usual,” she said.

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In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, a man walks past health insurer Anthem’s corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. Photo by AP.

In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, a man walks past health insurer Anthem’s corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. Photo by AP.