Concentration in Health Insurance Markets
This interactive chart provides details on 1) enrollment in the overall individual market and the individual exchanges as measured by covered life-years, and 2) covered life-years in each state's individual exchange as a proportion of covered life-years in the overall individual market from 2015 through 2022.
Kansas
Source: GAO analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). | GAO-25-107194
The table below displays data for the selected state. Click here to download the data used in this graphic.
| State | Year | Covered life-years, individual exchange | Covered life-years, individual market | Individual exchange covered life-years as a proportion of overall individual market (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 2015 | 76,695 | 179,954 | 43 |
| Kansas | 2016 | 81,746 | 172,009 | 48 |
| Kansas | 2017 | 80,780 | 141,980 | 57 |
| Kansas | 2018 | 79,836 | 118,601 | 67 |
| Kansas | 2019 | 77,084 | 107,829 | 71 |
| Kansas | 2020 | 75,969 | 103,273 | 74 |
| Kansas | 2021 | 86,008 | 110,975 | 78 |
| Kansas | 2022 | 98,650 | 115,307 | 86 |
- We calculated the size of each market from 2015 through 2022 using covered life-years that issuers reported to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or states. This measure is calculated as the average number of lives insured each month in the reporting year. Rather than a point-in-time measurement, this measure accounts for changes in enrollment that occur throughout the year.
- Covered life-years is one of several ways to measure health insurance enrollment, so it may differ from other measures of market size.
- We rounded market share values of less than 0.5 percent to zero.