California: Covered CA reports 410K active enrollments, either up 4.8% or down 7.9% y/y depending on your POV...

I don't know if this is new or not, but it turns out that Covered California--the largest state-based ACA exchange in the country--has an Open Enrollment Dashboard after all!

This means that in addition to two small states regularly reporting Open Enrollment data (Maine and New Mexico), the largest one is as well!

Here's what Covered CA is reporting as of November 29th:

• New enrollments: 45,023
• Active renewals: 365,879
• Passive/Autorenewals: 1,412,526
• Total: 1,823,428

As I've noted in both my Maine and New Mexico updates, 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).4,

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 410,902 combined.

As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 11/30), Covered CA was reporting:

• New enrollments: 67,263
• Active renewals: 324,828
• Passive/Autorenewals: 1,324,640
• Total: 1,649,468

That's 392,091 new+active renewals as of 11/30/24, which means CA is actually running about 4.8% ahead of last year so far:

• New enrollments are down 33% y/y
• Active renewals are up 12.6% 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 7.9% 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...