New Mexico 1st state exchange to report 2026 enrollment data: 4,088 active enrollments in first 11 days

BeWell NM, New Mexico's ACA exchange, is the first out of the gate to report hard enrollment data for 2026:

New Mexico Open Enrollment 2026 - Enrollment Summary

Last Refreshed On: November 12th 2025

Officially, they're reporting 70,485 Qualified Health Plan (QHP) enrollments already, which is actually slightly higher than the 70,373 which they ended with during the 2025 Open Enrollment Period (OEP) last January.

HOWEVER...and this is a major caveat...that 70,485 includes all current enrollees being auto-renewed for 2026, which doesn't really count for my purposes. Most state exchanges used to hold off on lumping in the auto-renewals until after the initial December deadline, only reporting current enrollees who actively re-enroll along with new enrollees.

When I look at it that way, I get:

• Active Re-enrollees: 3,520
• New Enrollees: 1,102
• Automatic Re-enrollees: 65,910

The auto-re-enrollee number will shrink over time as more existing enrollees actively choose a new plan (or even the same one) for 2026.

I also can't really run a fair year-over-year comparison because last year BeWell NM didn't put out their first OEP enrollment report until Nov. 27th.

They break out the data several other ways as well (income level, subsidy level, metal level), but again, all of that includes the full 70.5K enrollees which isn't really useful until the dust settles (or at least until late December).

I know this is pretty thin gruel data-wise, but it's a start...