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.
Minnesota
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 (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 2015 | -- | 311,196 | -- |
| Minnesota | 2016 | 65,995 | 260,562 | 25 |
| Minnesota | 2017 | 90,090 | 158,790 | 57 |
| Minnesota | 2018 | 95,922 | 151,209 | 63 |
| Minnesota | 2019 | 97,525 | 151,633 | 64 |
| Minnesota | 2020 | 102,984 | 159,150 | 65 |
| Minnesota | 2021 | 107,235 | 136,481 | 79 |
| Minnesota | 2022 | 109,844 | 164,043 | 67 |
- 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.
- Minnesota is not included in this figure for 2015 because we were unable to obtain data for that year.