California: Covered CA reports 451K active enrollments, up 4% y/y so far

via Covered California's Open Enrollment Dashboard, as of December 6th:

• New enrollments: 62,247
• Active renewals: 389,329
• Passive Autorenewals: 1,363,264
• Total: 1,814,840

As I've noted before: While I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which is December 15th in most states, although not until 12/23 in MA & 12/31 in MD, NV, NJ, NM & RI).

More important for the moment is the total number of active enrollments, which includes both new enrollees as well as current enrollees who log into their account and actively select a plan for 2026.

In California, those come to 451,576 combined. This also means that only 22% of current enrollees had actively re-enrolled as of 12/06.

As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 12/07), Covered CA was reporting:

• New enrollments: 93,303
• Active renewals: 340,940
• Passive/Autorenewals: 1,270,203
• Total: 1,704,446

That's 434,243 new+active renewals as of 12/07/24, which means CA is actually running about 4% ahead of last year so far:

• New enrollments are down 33% y/y
• Active renewals are up 22% y/y

On the other hand, the official 2025 Open Enrollment Period enrollment tally ended up being 1,979,504 people, which means that total enrollment for 2026 is currently running about 8.3% behind last year.

Remember, that passive/auto-renewal number will only drop as time goes on, due to current enrollees either moving into the active renewal column or actively canceling their 2026 coverage entirely.

Stay tuned...