Federal Health Insurance Exchange Weekly Enrollment Snapshot: Week 4

Week 4, Nov 17-23, 2019

In week four of the 2020 Open Enrollment, 703,556 people selected plans using the HealthCare.gov platform. As in past years, enrollment weeks are measured Sunday through Saturday. Consequently, the cumulative totals reported in this snapshot reflect one fewer day than last year.

Every week during Open Enrollment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release enrollment snapshots for the HealthCare.gov platform, which is used by the Federally-facilitated Exchange and some State-based Exchanges. These snapshots provide point-in-time estimates of weekly plan selections, call center activity, and visits to HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov.

The final number of plan selections associated with enrollment activity during a reporting period may change due to plan modifications or cancellations. In addition, the weekly snapshot only reports new plan selections and active plan renewals and does not report the number of consumers who have paid premiums to effectuate their enrollment.

Definitions and details on the data are included in the glossary.

HealthCare.gov Platform Snapshot

HealthCare.gov Platform Snapshot	Week 4: Nov 17 – 23	Cumulative: Nov 1-23
Plan Selections	703,556	2,372,957
New Consumers	190,135	621,709
Consumers Renewing Coverage	513,421	1,751,248
Consumers on Applications Submitted	1,001,908	3,888,569
Call Center Volume	524,567	1,655,291
Calls with Spanish Speaking Representative	38,001	124,850
HealthCare.gov Users	2,315,250	7,228,767
CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users	85,105	277,989
Window Shopping HealthCare.gov Users	169,673	682,254
Window Shopping CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users	6,852	19,684

HealthCare.gov State-by-State Snapshot

The state-by-state Snapshot provides cumulative individual market plan selections for the 38 states using the HealthCare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year. Cumulative individual plan selections for the states using the HealthCare.gov platform include:

State	Cumulative Plan Selections Nov 1 – 23
Alaska	5,165
Alabama	45,094
Arkansas	14,339
Arizona	35,010
Delaware	5,942
Florida	658,453
Georgia	145,968
Hawaii	5,350
Iowa	14,480
Illinois	65,099
Indiana	32,678
Kansas	23,332
Kentucky	22,642
Louisiana	23,267
Maine	13,439
Michigan	62,790
Missouri	55,154
Mississippi	31,354
Montana	10,560
North Carolina	135,471
North Dakota	4,891
Nebraska	25,614
New Hampshire	11,148
New Jersey	62,566
New Mexico	11,277
Ohio	44,910
Oklahoma	36,728
Oregon	39,019
Pennsylvania	83,118
South Carolina	61,555
South Dakota	8,232
Tennessee	51,778
Texas	326,950
Utah	62,090
Virginia	67,205
Wisconsin	57,879
West Virginia	5,025
Wyoming	7,385

Glossary

Plan Selections: The cumulative metric represents the total number of people who have submitted an application and selected a plan, net of any cancellations from a consumer or cancellations from an insurer that have occurred to date. The weekly metric represents the net change in the number of non-cancelled plan sections over the period covered by the report.

Plan selections will not include those consumers who are automatically re-enrolled into a plan.

To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not report the number of effectuated enrollments.

New Consumers: A consumer is considered to be a new consumer if they did not have 2019 Exchange coverage through December 31, 2019 and had a 2020 plan selection.

Renewing Consumers: A consumer is considered to be a renewing consumer if they have 2019 Exchange coverage through December 31, 2019 and either actively select the same plan or a new plan for 2020.

Exchange: Generally, this report refers to 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year. The states using the HealthCare.gov platform for the individual market Exchange are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

HealthCare.gov States: The 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year, including the Federally-facilitated Exchange and some State-based Exchanges.

Consumers on Applications Submitted: This includes a consumer who is on a completed application submitted to the Exchange using the HealthCare.gov platform. If determined eligible for Exchange coverage, a consumer still needs to pick a health plan (i.e., plan selection) and pay their premium to get covered (i.e., effectuated enrollment). Because families can submit a single application, this figure tallies the total number of people on a submitted application (rather than the total number of submitted applications).

Call Center Volume: The total number of calls received by the call center for the 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year over the time period covered by the snapshot. Calls with Spanish speaking representatives are not included.

Calls with Spanish Speaking Representative: The total number of calls received by the call center for the 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year over the time period covered by the snapshot where consumers chose to speak with a Spanish-speaking representative. These calls are not included within the Call Center Volume metric.

HealthCare.gov Users or CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users: These user metrics total how many unique users viewed or interacted with HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov, respectively, over the course of a specific date range. For cumulative totals, a separate report is run for the entire Open Enrollment period to minimize users being counted more than once during that longer range of time and to provide a more accurate estimate of unique users. Depending on an individual’s browser settings and browsing habits, a visitor may be counted as a unique user more than once.

Window Shopping HealthCare.gov Users or CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users: These user metrics total how many unique users interacted with the window-shopping tool at HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov, respectively, over the course of a specific date range. For cumulative totals, a separate report is run for the entire Open Enrollment period to minimize users being counted more than once during that longer range of time and to provide a more accurate estimate of unique users. Depending on an individual’s browser settings and browsing habits, a visitor may be counted as a unique user more than once. Users who window-shopped are also included in the total HealthCare.gov or CuidadoDeSalud.gov user total.