Federal Health Insurance Exchange Weekly Enrollment Snapshot: Week 6

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 11, 2019

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Federal Health Insurance Exchange Weekly Enrollment Snapshot: Week 6

Week 6, Dec 1-7, 2019

In week six of the 2020 Open Enrollment, 1,005,673 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 6: Dec 1 – 7	Cumulative:  Nov 1 – Dec 7
Plan Selections	1,005,673	3,882,671
New Consumers	302,569	1,067,525
Consumers Renewing Coverage	703,104	2,815,146
Consumers on Applications Submitted	1,293,388	5,865,423
Call Center Volume	771,996	2,792,030
Calls with Spanish Speaking Representative	55,275	205,940
HealthCare.gov Users	2,837,190	10,723,647
CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users	100,060	408,827
Window Shopping HealthCare.gov Users	202,739	928,555
Window Shopping CuidadoDeSalud.gov Users	7,514	26,308

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 – Dec 7
Alaska	8,423
Alabama	73,066
Arkansas	24,097
Arizona	60,339
Delaware	10,196
Florida	1,029,944
Georgia	230,229
Hawaii	8,975
Iowa	23,856
Illinois	115,081
Indiana	56,401
Kansas	38,421
Kentucky	37,159
Louisiana	37,974
Maine	24,096
Michigan	107,781
Missouri	91,162
Mississippi	48,222
Montana	18,626
North Carolina	222,362
North Dakota	8,969
Nebraska	44,255
New Hampshire	18,621
New Jersey	106,480
New Mexico	18,727
Ohio	79,050
Oklahoma	63,333
Oregon	65,803
Pennsylvania	142,159
South Carolina	99,494
South Dakota	14,125
Tennessee	86,069
Texas	538,469
Utah	100,205
Virginia	115,251
Wisconsin	94,749
West Virginia	8,344
Wyoming	12,158

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.